February 3, 2017

Hosted by Tristan Taormino

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Episode Description

Sex educator Elle Chase returns to the show to celebrate the release of her new book, Curvy Girl Sex. It covers sex positions from basic to advanced, specific challenges faced as plus-sized lovers, and precise tips, tricks and techniques that cater to your big, beautiful body. She'll talk body positivity and how people of all sizes can benefit from the inclusive, shame-free advice.

Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino

Friday at 5 PM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Variety Channel

This program contains explicit content that may be unsuitable for some listeners. Discretion is advised.

Join award winning author, speaker, sex educator and filmmaker Tristan Taormino as she explores the world of sexuality from every angle. Tristan will interview leading authors, educators, artists and icons and give you an uncensored, inside look at alternative sexual practices and communities. She’ll delve into topics from the popular to the taboo, including erotic fantasies, BDSM, non-monogamy, the adult industry, and more. Tristan will answer your questions on the air sharing her fifteen years of experience and honest, down to earth, sex-positive advice. Open your mind and expand your erotic horizons. Tune in to Sex Out Loud, live every Friday at 5 PM Pacific Time on the VoiceAmerica Variety Channel.

Tristan Taormino

Tristan Taormino is an award winning author, sex educator, speaker, and filmmaker. She is the author of seven books, including The Secrets of Great G-Spot Orgasms and Female Ejaculation, The Big Book of Sex Toys, Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships, and The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women. She has edited 25 anthologies including The Ultimate Guide to Kink and the Lambda Literary Award winning series Best Lesbian Erotica. She’s written for a multitude of publications from Yale Journal of Law and Feminism to Penthouse. For nine and a half years, she wrote a column in The Village Voice and has written an advice column for Taboo Magazine since 1999.

As the head of Smart Ass Productions, she directs and produces adult sex education and erotic films, including The Expert Guide series for Vivid Entertainment. Her films have won more than a dozen awards, and she was honored with the prestigious Feminist Porn Trailblazer Award in 2010. Tristan and her work have been featured in over 300 publications including O: The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Men’s Health, and Playboy. She has appeared on HBO’s Real Sex, Ricki Lake, The Howard Stern Show, Loveline, MTV, CNN, NBC, and The Discovery Channel. She lectures at top colleges and universities including Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, and NYU. She teaches sex and relationship classes around the world.

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Lux Alptraum

Lux Alptraum is a writer, sex educator, and consultant most frequently found at Nerve and WoodRocket. Past projects have included gigs as the editor, publisher, and CEO of Fleshbot, the web’s foremost blog about sexuality and adult entertainment; a sex educator at an adolescent pregnancy prevention program; an HIV pretest counselor; and the founder of ThatStrangeGirl, an alternative porn site, and Boinkology, a blog about sex and culture. Her writing has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Hustler, FastCompany.com, Salon.com, TheAtlantic.com, Time Out New York, Jezebel.com, SundanceChannel.com,Bizarre Magazine, Jalopnik.com, BlackbookMag.com, GOOD Magazine, and more. She has spoken about sexuality, the internet, and adult entertainment at Harvard University, Brown University, Yale University, NYU, Columbia University, Ohio State University, SXSW, and New York City’s Museum of Sex, and was recognized as one of 2008′s Heeb 100. View Guest page

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Cindy Lee Alves

Cindy Lee Alves, M.Ed is a doctoral candidate at Widener University’s Center for Sexuality Studies, where she also earned her Master’s in Education. Her research interests include sexual orientation, gender, pleasure, and intersectionality. Currently, Cindy teaches human sexuality courses at various colleges in NY and NJ, as well as guest lectures and provides workshops for adults and young people.
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Megan Andelloux

Megan Andelloux, founder and executive director of The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health (The CSPH), is a Clinical Sexologist, AASECT certified Sexuality Educator, and ISSWSH Fellow. Her innovative education programs, writing, social media presence, and ambitious speaking schedule have helped make her one of America’s most recognized and sought-after experts in the growing field of sexual pleasure, health, and politics. She has delivered her dynamic programs at more than 175 institutions of higher education, including 7 of the 8 Ivy League universities, and is an Adjunct Instructor in the Brown University Medical School. In 2012, Ms. Andelloux received the First Tracks Award for Innovation in Sexology by Honest Exchange, as well as came out with her first book, Hot and Fast: Sexy, Spontaneous Quickies for Passionate Orgasms (Amorata Press). She has also written timely consumer feature stories, industry trend reports, and journal articles for the education and research communities
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Diane and Jacob Anderson-Minshall

Diane and Jacob Anderson-Minshall are co-conspirators in life and love. Their memoir, Queerly Beloved, is about how their relationship survived their transition from lesbian couple to man and wife. The couple also co-author the Blind Eye Detectives mystery series (Blind Curves, Blind Leap, and the Lambda Literary Award finalist Blind Faith). Diane is the editor-at-large for The Advocate, and editor-in-chief of HIV Plus magazine. An award winning journalist, Diane was most recently honored with a Western Publishing Association Maggie award for leadership. Jacob is a freelance writer for outlets like the Advocate and Windy City Times. For four years his syndicated weekly column, TransNation ran in LGBT publications across the nation. Later he founded and co-hosted the radio show Gender Blender which aired on Portland, Oregon’s KBOO.
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Buck Angel

As a visionary filmmaker, activist, educator and lecturer, Buck Angel launched Buck Angel Entertainment as a vehicle to produce multi media projects that will motivate viewers to think outside the box. Buck Angel's message of empowerment through self-acceptance and being sexually comfortable in your own skin has struck a passionate chord with folks all over the world. Since Buck coined "it's not what's between your legs that defines your gender!", the phrase has become an anthem for people everywhere who have been inspired by this message of self acceptance. Buck has been featured in nearly every imaginable international media outlet: television, radio, web, and print. Buck Angel made history when he received the prestigious award from Adult Video News (AVN) for Transsexual Performer of the Year in 2007 for his groundbreaking work in the adult entertainment industry. Buck has received international recognition and continues to be a huge box office hit in numerous markets.
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Joanna Angel

Joanna Angel is a writer, producer, director, model and award-winning adult film star. She is the founder and owner of BurningAngel Entertainment - a production company that pioneered a new species of erotica known as "alt porn." Joanna has stared in over 300 XXX movies and has appeared in every major adult magazine and has graced the pages of several tattoo magazines as well. In addition to her notoriety in the adult industry, she has stormed mainstream media in both TV and radio outlets. She has been featured on Fox News, Playboy TV, Fuse TV, G4 TV, KROQ Radio, SIRIUS Radio, the 2008 series premiere of TLC’s LA Ink, and a speaking role on Adult Swim's "Children's Hospital." She has also appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, The Village Voice, The New York Press, Esquire UK, Details, and Penthouse, among others. Joanna Angel has won many awards in the adult industry, for performing, directing, and for the quality of her website.
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Laura Antoniou

Proud member of the Middle Aged Guard Laura Antoniou
(LAntoniou.com) is the author of the well known Marketplace series of erotic novels, but has also written dozens of short stories, essays and other works in various genres for over 25 years. Winner of the NLA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Pantheon of Leather Lifetime Achievement Award, she nevertheless intends to keep living for quite some time. A popular speaker on topic relating to alternative sexual practices – aka kinky sex – she has presented, taught and ranted at over 150 conferences and events since the 1980′s, delivering enlightenment, entertainment and indictments. She has also appeared at colleges and universities, including Harvard, NYU, Rutgers, Columbia and the University of Washington.
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Alexandra Ars

Alexandra manages the brand, designs the web and brews the tea for Orgasmatronics, Inc. She co-founded the company with Doctor X. Treme. Alexandra used to be a graphic designer for a jewelry company, several bands and, for a little while, Mozilla. But when Dr. X. elucidated his vision of a queer sex toy company while they waded in a freezing river she knew she had to help make the dream a reality. She is a kinky, polyamorous, bespectacled drummer. She believes socks and scarves are the sexiest items of clothing especially when worn exclusively. Alexandra loves the Ambrosia Vibe bionic strap-on for it's simplicity and body-hacking and gender-bending possibilities.
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Nicole "Coco" Austin

Coco of Ice Loves Coco : Born as Nicole Austin (March 17, 1979), commonly known as Coco, is a television personality, glamour/fitness model, actress, dancer, author, fashion designer, entrepreneur, internet sensation and dog mom to supermodel Spartacus and Maximus.
Coco was born in Tarzana, California and brought up in Palos Verdes, California. In April 2011, Coco, along with husband Ice T opened up their life to the world as they appeared on E! hit reality TV show “Ice Loves Coco” which focuses on her business ventures and dedication to her marriage, family, friends with humorous moments and the lessons learned, the real modern day “I LOVE LUCY”. Coco has also entered the world of writing as she released her new fictional novel entitled “Angel” with Forge a division of McMillan publishing which was released in September 2011. Coco is today’s modern woman, continuing to elevate, creating new opportunities, teaching woman of all ages how to be fit, sexy and confident, living with old fashion marriage values that work and always climbing the never ending ladder of success.
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Marcia Baczynski

Marcia Baczynski is a relationship coach, writer and sex educator who has spent the last 10+ years specializing in helping people figure out -- and ask for -- what they want in life, love and in the bedroom. Through her coaching programs and workshops, she has helped thousands of people identify (and ask for!) what they wanted in their sex lives and relationships. She has been featured TV, radio, magazines and newspapers in 27 countries, (including Montel Williams, People magazine, NPR, and the Washington Post). She works primarily with clients around open relationships, communication, desire, and asking for what you want.
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Matt Barber

A Los Angeles-based director and producer, Matt Barber has established himself as an intuitive storyteller who is also known for his ability to find the right song for the right scene (and the right scene for the right song). Barber’s directing credits include: iZombie (the CW), Forever (ABC), The 100 (the CW), the NBC cultcomedy Chuck (on which he also served as an editor for five years), the awardwinning film Weathered (starring Tony Hale), and the feature documentary No Cameras Allowed (MTV.) Give Me Sex Jesus is his first venture into issue-based documentaries.
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Dr. Meg Barker

Dr. Meg Barker is a senior lecturer in psychology at the Open
University and a therapist specialising in sexual and relationship issues.
Meg has published books on relationships, sexuality, and counselling and is
co-editor of the journal Psychology & Sexuality. Meg runs many public and
professional events about sex and relationships (e.g. Critical Sexology,
Sense about Sex, BiReCon), as well as providing training for the UK College
of Sexual and Relationship Therapists. Meg was first author of The
Bisexuality Report about bisexual experience in the UK. Meg's most recent
book Rewriting the Rules tackles the common 'rules' around love and sex that
people often feel they must adhere to (www.rewriting-the-rules.com).
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Carlos Batts

Carlos Batts is an award winning; Artist, Photographer and Director. Batts' artwork has appeared on book covers, fashion magazines, comic books and motion pictures. Carlos has three internationally distributed hardbound coffee table books; Wild Skin, Crazy Sexy Hollywood and American Gothic that document a wide variety of sub-cultures. Batts has directed independent art films; American Gothic, Voluptuous Biker Babes, and April Flores World that are distributed through various mainstream outlets. Born in Baltimore, Batts now lives and creates in Hollywood with his Muse, April Flores.
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Tracy Bear

Assistant Professor cross-appointed with the Faculty of Native Studies and Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. Her dissertation: Power In My Blood: Corporeal Sovereignty Through a Praxis of Indigenous Eroticanalysis won the Governor General Gold Medal award in 2016. She is a Cree scholar from the Montreal Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. Her research areas are rooted in decolonial methodologies often found within Indigenous Studies. Specifically, she engages in the areas of: Indigenous Erotics & Eroticanalysis; Indigenous Feminism, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Sovereignty, Land & Body Politics; and Contemporary Indigenous Art.
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Kristin Beck

Kristin Beck is an author, activist and veteran who served for 20 years, through 13 deployments, as a US Navy SEAL. In her military career, she distinguished herself with Special Operations Forces at SEAL Team One, SEAL Team Five, Naval Special Warfare Development Group (SEAL TEAM Six) and the Headquarters at SOCOM. She received the Bronze star with Valor, Purple Heart, Defense Meritorious Service Medal and many other awards.

She retired in 2011 with the rank of Senior Chief and continued high-level security work for the US government, including the Pentagon. In a 2013 she appeared on CNN with Anderson Cooper and spoke about her life as transgender person beginning as a boy from a Christian family through her time in the SEALs. A follow on documentary with CNN "Lady Valor" has been seen by over 10 million Americans in the month of September 2014.

She works daily with Pentagon and Government Officials toward true liberty and equality within the ranks of the Department of Defense.
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Cooper S. Beckett

Cooper S. Beckett is the co-founder and host of Life on the Swingset: The Podcast since 2010, author of swinging & polyamory novels A Life Less Monogamous and Approaching The Swingularity, and memoir My Life on the Swingset: Adventures in Swinging & Polyamory. He teaches and speaks on swinging, polyamory, pegging, play parties, and coloring outside the boundaries of your sexuality. He is a graphic & web designer, photographer, and voice over artist, has been a guest expert on Dan Savage’s Savage Lovecast, & is the announcer of Tristan Taormino’s radio show Sex Out Loud. He is currently working on two instructional non-fiction books, one about beginning non-monogamy, and another about pegging.
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Jennifer Lyon Bell

Jennifer Lyon Bell is a Harvard-educated American erotic film
director and curator living in Amsterdam. For her independent production
company Blue Artichoke Films, she writes and directs award-winning explicit
erotic films combining authentic sex and arthouse values. They have screened
all over the world at international festivals and cinemas in America,
Europe, and Japan. In addition, she curates erotic-themed film programs and
exhibitions for museums, arts institutions, and festivals including The
Museum of Sex in New York, Ladyfest, Women Inc., and the San Francisco Indie
Erotic Film Festival, and was a co-director of the Amsterdam Alternative
Erotica Film Festival. She also gives lectures and leads workshops on
erotica, porn, feminism, and film theory at institutions from the Dutch Film
Academy to the Berlin Porn Film Festival.
www.blueartichokefilms.com
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Jaeleen Bennis

I am the Creator of Bondassage® and Elysium by Bondassage®, a Certified Massage Therapist, Professional Domina, Reiki Master, urban tantrika, and sensual shaman with more than 25 years of experience. I have extensive training in several healing modalities, including Amma, Swedish, acupressure, shiatsu, deep tissue, sports massage, Reiki, rebirthing, polarity, trigger and active release, Thai, Tantra, and Taoist Massage, Shamanic journeying, aromatherapy, and esoteric energy healing. I am a graduate Barbara Carrelles’s Urban Tantra for Professionals program.
As a Domina, I specialize in corporal punishment, bondage, sensory deprivation, and a wide range of body play. My book, Bondassage: Kinky Erotic Massage Tips for Lovers, written with Eve Minax, was published in 2013. I live at the beach near Santa Cruz, California.
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Ginger Bentham

As an oversexed, omnisexual castaway from the sexually-repressed culture, Ginger Bentham believes the next sexual revolution of total sex-positivity is just around the corner and it’s time for the revolutionaries to unite! As a co-host Life on the Swingset, she strives to help people expand their way of thinking and discover their true sexy potential.
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S. Bear Bergman

Award-winning writer, educator and storyteller S. Bear Bergman is the author or editor of six books as well as the founder and publisher of Flamingo Rampant, a children’s press focused on feminist, LGBTQ-positive, racially-diverse children’s books. His most recent book Blood, Marriage, Wine, & Glitter made several 10 Best of 2014 lists and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. A much loved speaker and storyteller at universities and festivals alike, Bergman’s signature blend of wit and warmth brings all the people to the yard regardless of their sex designation, gender identity, or gender expression, which he would like to remind you are not at all the same thing.
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Daniel Bergner

is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a critically-acclaimed author. His previous books include God of the Rodeo: The Quest for Redemption in Louisiana’s Angola Prison, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; In the Land of Magic Soldiers: A Story of White and Black in West Africa, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; and The Other Side of Desire:
Four Journeys into the Far Realms of Lust and Longing. His writing has also appeared in Granta, Harper's, Mother Jones, Talk, The New York Times Book Review, and on the op-ed page of The New York Times.
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Tara Betts

Tara Betts is the author of Break the Habit and Arc & Hue. Her chapbooks include 7 x 7: kwansabas and THE GREATEST!: An Homage to Muhammad Ali. Her writing has appeared in POETRY, Essence, NYLON, Obsidian, Callaloo, and several anthologies, including Best Black Women's Erotica 2 and Erotic Haiku. Betts earned her MFA at New England College and her Ph.D. in English at Binghamton University.
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Anaín Bjorkquist

Anaín Bjorkquist is a speaker, certified sex educator, sex + wellness coach and published erotica writer. Her life’s purpose is to serve women as a companion and guide on the journey from yearning to thriving. Anaín’s mission is to help women ditch perfection for pleasure. Her writing, weekly podcast Sex Love Joy and live workshops teach women how to consciously let go, trust their intuition and embody turn on. Anaín is dedicated to bringing fierce women together because the best learning and personal growth happens within intimate groups of women sharing their experiences. She’s ready to teach you the art of Orgasmic Self Love over at anainbjorkquist.com
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Metis Black

Metis Black founded and built Tantus, Inc., a sex toy manufacturing company that has helped change the profile of sexuality products. She has used Tantus to mainstream silicone products and educate the industry on material safety and sexuality. Metis’ success has brought her accolades inside and outside of her industry. Her articles on material safety standards in sexual products and the chemistry of personal products such as lubricants have been widely published. Some of her publishing credits include Good Vibrations Online Magazine, On Our Backs, Adult Novelty Business, XBiz, and The Free Speech Coalition. Plus she has been the “go to” industry person about sex toy material safety, quoted in hundreds of articles online and in print. Over the last decade, Metis has proven to be a champion for sex educators and a mentor to other small business owners. View Guest page

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Orpheus Black

Orpheus Black, Southern California's Leather Master/slave titleholder, is also a published author and erotic educator that specializes in hierarchical dynamics, non-monogamous relationships, and erotic meditation. This two-time Bawdy Storytelling champion has been traveling the country teaching his fun and light-hearted educational events for more than a decade. During this time, Orpheus has become one of California's most respected educators as well as a favorite interviewee and contributor, lending his expertise to shows such as “Chocolate Radio,” “Night Calls,” “Love, Sex, and Hip Hop,” “The Sex Nerd Sandra Show,” “The Dr. Susan Block Show,” and “The Inner Circle with Neil Strauss.” Orpheus is also a regular presenter at DomConLA and is the founder of Cirque de Sade—a high profile Dominants group whose mission is to advance the art of BDSM through a commitment to innovation, excellence, and active leadership in the D/s, Ms and fetish communities. View Guest page

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Hanne Blank

Hanne Blank spends her time thinking, learning, writing, and speaking at the crossroads of bodies, self, and culture. Joyfully spanning the town/gown divide as well as the mind/body split, her books include the histories Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality (Beacon Press, 2012) and Virgin: The Untouched History (Bloomsbury, 2007), the cult classic sex and body-acceptance book Big Big Love: A Sex and Relationships Guide for People of Size (and Those Who Love Them) (Celestial Arts, 2011), and numerous others. A former Scholar of the Institute for Teaching and Research on Women at Towson University, Hanne is a popular speaker and guest lecturer on topics from the history of the hymen to the politics of getting on top. Her current projects include books on MFK Fisher, the rights of human bodies, and the thoroughly gory history of gynecology.
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Jenny Block

Jenny Block, is a frequent contributor to a number of high-profile publications from Huffington Post to Playboy, and is the author of “O Wow! Discovering Your Ultimate Orgasm” and “Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage” (2008 Lambda Literary Award). She appears regularly on HuffPo Live, and the HuffPo Sex and Love Podcast. She holds both her BA and her MA in English from Virginia Commonwealth University and taught college composition for nearly ten years. Her work appears in and on huffingtonpost.com, Playboy.com, yourtango.com, American Way, Veranda, the Dallas Morning News, the Dallas Voice, edgedallas.com, literarymama.com, Spirit, chow.com, ellegirl.com, and many more. She is often called on as an expert on sex and women’s sexuality for yourtango.com, bustle.com, Woman’s Day Magazine, sheknows.com, and many others. Jenny has appeared on a variety of television and radio programs.
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Justin Vivian Bond

Mx. Justin Vivian Bond is a writer, singer, painter, performance artist, and activist. This year Powerhouse Books published Susie Says, a collaboration between Bond and Gina Garan. In addition to the release of Dendrophile and the publication of Tango, 2011 included Justin Vivian’s art exhibition The Fall of the House of Whimsy, presented at Participant Inc. in New York City. Mx Bond was nominated for a Tony Award for Kiki and Herb Alive On Broadway in 2007. Other notable endeavors include originating the role of Herculine Barbin in Kate Bornstein’s groundbreaking play Hidden: A Gender, touring with the performance troupe The Big Art Group and appearing in John Cameron Mitchell’s film Shortbus. For more information, please visit v’s blog, Justin Vivian Bond is Living! at www.justinbond.com
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Lidia Bonilla

Covered by Fast Company, Tech Crunch, and Huffington Post, the Moi Box Deluxe launched Lidia’s reputation as a design innovator, change agent and sought after expert. After an embarrassing encounter with an organizing professional, she created an innovation solution to store sex toys at home and on the go.
She speaks on topics ranging from sex in communities of color and dismantling sexual taboos to the nuts and bolts of turning an idea into a real product. She is also the co-founder of Women of Sex Tech, an international group of women in the sex tech industry dedicated to increasing diversity in the industry and increase access to funding for female founded startups.
Perhaps it’s no coincidence that, in her former career as a compliance and regulatory expert, Lidia worked with various “naughty” financial institutions. Raised in Miami, she calls Brooklyn home. Her spirits animals include Beyoncé, Rihanna, and the entire cast of the Golden Girls.
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Kate Bornstein

Kate Bornstein is a performance artist and playwright who has authored several award-winning books including Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and The Rest of Us, My Gender Workbook and Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws. She has earned two citations of honor from the New York City Council and garnered praise from civil rights groups around the globe. Kate lives in New York City with her girlfriend, three cats, two dogs, and a turtle.
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Bevin Branlandingham

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Bevin Branlandingham is an ultra rad warrior for self-acceptance. She is a writer, performer, healer and cultural producer in Los Angeles, CA who believes that all bodies are good bodies and works to make the world safe for people to love themselves. ​An award-winning Femmecee and event producer, Bevin's monthly body positive dance party Rebel Cupcake was named one of the reasons New York City is the Best City in the World by Time Out New York. ​She moved to Los Angeles in 2016 and is excited to be part of an upstart community that turns the stereotype of thin obsessed Hollywood on its head. She blogs at queerfatfemme.com and teaches a weekly dance aerobics class called Fat Kid Dance Party (For all Sizes to Heal from Body Oppression) at EVERYBODY in Los Angeles. She provides energy healing through Reiki-infused teas, currently available through her blog and soon at bevinstea.com.
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Blair Braverman

Blair Braverman is a nonfiction writer and dogsledder whose work has appeared in This American Life, The Atavist, Buzzfeed, Orion, The Best Women's Travel Writing and elsewhere. She is training for the Iditarod, a 1100-mile dogsled race across Alaska. Her first book is WELCOME TO THE GODDAMN ICE CUBE, out now from Ecco/HarperCollins.
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Aretha Bright

Aretha Bright's debut book is Mother-Daughter Sex Advice. She is 21 and lives in San Francisco. She can’t boast the same credentials as her mom yet. She’s ready to fly down to Hollywood at a moment’s notice! She is busy as a new author, pysch graduate from SF State University, and working gal. Aretha is interested in travel, sex, books, holidays, and pizza, among other things. Hear about her latest adventures on her blog!
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Susie Bright

Susie Bright is the author of Full Exposure and The Sexual State of the Union, as well as The Best American Erotica and Herotica series. Her memoir, Big Sex Little Death is her latest. She is the host and producer of Audible’s weekly podcast, In Bed With Susie Bright. Bright was co-founder and editor of On Our Backs magazine, and the first journalist to cover erotic cinema and the porn business in the mainstream press. A progenitor of the sex-positive movement, Bright taught the first university course on pornography, and brought lasting sexual influence to her role in films like Bound and The Celluloid Closet, as well as playing herself, the feminist sex writer, on Six Feet Under.
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Kelly Martin Broderick

Kelly Martin Broderick grew up in Columbia, Maryland and is a student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) majoring in Gender & Women’s Studies. Before returning to school at 28, she worked as a retail store manager and makeup artist for almost a decade. Kelly has been involved in feminist activism for a number of years, more actively since transferring to UMBC. She served as an Ambassador for Planned Parenthood Maryland from 2012-2013, assisting PPM with outreach campaigns and other projects. She is also a member of Baltimore NOW (National Organization for Women). At UMBC, she’s a co-leader of a Gender & Women’s Studies sponsored feminist activism group called WILL (Women Involved in Learning & Leadership), is a student staff member at the Women’s Center at UMBC, and a Transfer & Established Student Leader for the Honors College. She has a strong interest in politics and this summer was a communications intern for Maryland State Delegate Mary Washington.
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Kandi Burruss

Whether singing, songwriting, running her Atlanta-based clothing store T.A.G.S., raising her adorable daughter Riley, running her own production company or showcasing her life on the insanely popular Bravo reality show The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Kandi does it with trademark tenacity and an unstoppable grind. Kandi‘s songwriting skills have made history twice. She is the first African American woman to win the prestigious ASCAP “Songwriter of the Year” award (2000) and the first woman ever to win ASCAP’s Rhythm & Soul Music Award (2000). In 2011, she paired with OhMiBod to create a line of sex toys for her new venture, Bedroom Kandi. She also hosts the weekly Internet talk show “Kandi Koated Nights” (kandikoatednight.com) every Wednesday, which features frank discussions of sex and relationships.
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Rachel Kramer Bussel

Rachel Kramer Bussel (rachelkramerbussel.com) is a writer, editor, event organizer and writing instructor. She’s edited over 60 anthologies, including Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volumes 1 and 2, On Fire, Come Again: Sex Toy Erotica, The Big Book of Orgasms, Spanked and many others. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, O, The Oprah Magazine, Elle.com, Rollingstone.com and elsewhere. Her erotica has spanned numerous subjects, from boxing to French fries to Monica Lewinsky to a dishwashing fetish to a kissing party, and her work has appeared in Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006 as well as Zane’s bestsellers Succulent: Chocolate Flava II and Purple Panties. She teaches in-person erotic writing workshops across the country as well as online classes via EroticaWriting101.com. Find her on Twitter @raquelita.
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Lorraine Byerly

Lorraine Byerly from We-Vibe. We-Vibe® designs and manufactures world-leading couples and solo vibrators. Their world-class engineers and industrial designers work closely with sexual wellness experts, doctors and consumers to design and develop intimate products that work in sync with the human body. They use state-of-the-art techniques and tools to make sure our products set new industry standards for ergonomic design and high performance while remaining eco‑friendly and body-safe. We-Vibe is from Standard Innovation®, a Canadian company dedicated to shaping the future of sexual health and wellness.
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Regie Cabico

Regie Cabico is a co-founder and host of La Ti Do: A Weekly Cabaret And Spoken Word Series and has appeared on 2 seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam and NPR's Snap Judgement. His latest solo play is Godiva Dates & A One Night Stand which premiered at the 2013 Capital Fringe Festival. His plays have been produced at The Humana Theater Festival, Joe's Pub (Public Theater), New York Live Arts, Contact Theater. He has shared the stage with Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg and through Howard Zinn's Portraits Project at NYU, has performed with Stanley Tucci, Jesse Eisenberg & Lupe Fiasco. View Guest page

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Rose Caraway

ROSE CARAWAY is a native Northern California Writer, Editor, Narrator, and Podcaster on the hit shows “The Kiss Me Quick’s Erotica Podcast” and “The Sexy Librarian Blog-cast”. Rose is also a professional Narrator for several Audible #1 Bestselling Erotica Audiobooks, and is the editor of the INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist and #1 bestselling, “The Sexy Librarian’s Big Book of Erotica”. Although her specialty is erotic fiction, she also has a passion for writing suspense, horror, fantasy, and romance. Some of her influences include Stephen King, Dan Savage, Jean M. Auel, Mia Martina, and Anne Rice. Rose’s writings prominently showcase her sex-positive approach to life, as well as her commitment to both feminism and masculinism. Being a staunch supporter of the LGBT community, she believes that people of all genders and orientations should be considered complementary and interdependent and are necessary for a truly healthy and functional society.
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Barbara Carrellas

Barbara Carrellas is the author of Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty First Century, Ecstasy is Necessary, and Luxurious Loving. She is the founder of Urban Tantra®, an approach to sacred sexuality that adapts and blends conscious sexuality practices from Tantra to BDSM, and the co-founder of Erotic Awakening, a pioneering series of workshops focusing on the physical, spiritual and healing powers of sex. Barbara was named Best Tantric Sex Seminar Leader in New York City by Time Out/NY Magazine for her Urban Tantra® workshops.
Barbara delights in blurring the lines between sacred and profane, enlightened and perverted, spirit and science, and pleasure and pain.
She is a proud graduate of the Coney Island Sideshow School with a double major in fire eating and snake handling
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Abraham Castillo

Abraham Castillo graduated as a filmmaker from SVA where he
received the Dusty Award and the Directors Guild of America award for Best
Latin Student Filmmaker in 1998. Director, Editor and programmer he is now
lives in Mexico City and dedicates his time to editing films, teaching and
as Programer of MORBIDO International Film Festival of Horror, Fantasy &
Science Fiction Films. In 2012 he collaborated with Marianna Palerm, founder
and director of LA MIRADA FEMENINA, Mexico's first film festival dedicated
to the promotion, study and discussion of porn films directed by women. He
is convinced that working and watching films on extreme sides of the
spectrum (Eros & Thanatos) keeps him sane and healthy.
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Claire Cavanah

Claire Cavanah & Rachel Venning are co-founders of Babeland, the famous sex toy shop celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Babeland is all about promoting sexual vitality, not only with customers in the store, but out in the community, whether that means visiting senior centers or student groups or anywhere else.
They’ve got a message of self-love, body-positivity and pleasure that they want to share. They are also the co-authors of the books Sex Toys
101 and Moregasm: Babeland’s Guide to Mindblowing Sex. They answer questions about sex, sex toys and the sex toy industry for media outlets as diverse as Brooklyn Paper and the Columbia University C-Spot to the New York Times and CNN. They also blog, tweet and answer sex questions at Babeland.com.
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Elle Chase

Sex educator, activist, author and speaker Elle Chase is a powerful voice and thought-leader in the sexual health community and a key influencer in the body acceptance movement. A member of the esteemed American College of Sexologists and the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health, Chase and her inspirational words have been featured on NBC's THE TODAY SHOW, Glamour, Marie Claire, The Daily Beast, Salon and Cosmopolitan.com, to name a few. Chase has been a sought-after sex expert for highly rated podcasts including; "Sex with Emily," "Sex Nerd Sandra," Tristan Taormino’s "Sex Out Loud," "Unscrewed" and Playboy Radio's "In Bed with jessica drake," and is also a respected national speaker and presenter at universities and private organizations across the country, including UCLA, USC, Emerson College, Woodhull Sexual Freedom Allaince and ASSECT.
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Lena Chen

Lena Chen is a writer, activist, and artist. Lena has been featured in outlets such as The New York Times, VICE, Marie Claire, Glamour, MTV, and The Washington Post. A Progressive Women’s Voices fellow at the Women’s Media Center, she has spoken at SXSW, Yale, Brown, Stanford, and Oxford. Her work has been supported by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, Senate for Culture and Europe Berlin, and Puffin Foundation. As a sex blogger, Lena was one of the earliest documented cases of cyberstalking, revenge porn, Google-bombing, and doxxing. In the aftermath of post-traumatic stress, she created an alternate identity as the nude model "Elle Peril", a five-year performance art project allowing her to reclaim agency over her body and personal narrative. Based in Berlin, Lena curates participatory art projects to promote civic engagement and empowerment for those overlooked by traditional media and politics. She graduated from Harvard University in 2010 with a degree in sociology.
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Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho is a comedian, actress, author, and singer-songwriter. She got her big break when she starred in the groundbreaking ABC sitcom, All-American Girl in 1994. In 1999, her off Broadway show I’m The One That I Want toured the country to national acclaim and was made into a bestselling book and feature film. Other national tours include Notorious C.H.O., Revolution, Beautiful, and Cho Dependent and her latest Mother. Since 2009, she has played Teri on the hit show Drop Dead Diva on Lifetime TV, now in its fifth season. Margaret has been honored by GLAAD, American Women in Radio and Television, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, and PFLAG for promoting equal rights for all, regardless of race, sexual orientation or gender identity. She has been nominated for an Emmy Award (for her guest star role on 30 Rock) and two Grammy Awards (for comedy albums Revolution and Cho Dependent).
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Shawn Chrisman

Shawn Chrisman is currently a practicing Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Texas. He received his clinical training with a Master’s in Counseling from Southern Methodist University, and is currently working towards his doctorate degree in Human Sexuality from Widener University. Shawn works with individuals and couples on sexuality-related issues, including addressing intimacy, sexual identity, gender dysphoria, sexual dysfunctions and other concerns. Shawn also identifies as a kink-aware therapist and works with couples enjoying diverse relationship structures, such as open or polyamorous relationships. Shawn is an active member of American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS). He has also presented workshops for professionals and community members at local universities and organizations. View Guest page

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Christian

Christian, also know as Christian XXX, is a male porn performer who has appeared in over 2000 scenes since he began work in the adult industry in 2003. He is the winner of four AVN Awards and he is the reigning 2013 Feminist Porn Heartthrob of the Year. He is a controversial figure because he’s done both gay and straight porn. His earliest work was in gay porn under the name Maxx Diesel (he was briefly a contract performer for Falcon Studios). He then began working in the straight porn industry under the name Christian, where, in addition to traditional heterosexual scenes, he does more diverse work than any of his peers including scenes featuring plus-sized co-stars, strap-on anal sex, transsexual women, male submission, and more. He has his own website aptly named ChristianDoesThemAll.com and he blogs at christiansingstheblues.com.
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Greta Christina

Greta Christina has been writing about sex for over two decades, for
publications including Ms., Penthouse, On Our Backs, and three volumes of
Best American Erotica. She is author of Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99
Things That Piss Off the Godless, an Amazon best-seller in the Atheism
category, and is one of the most widely-read and well-respected bloggers
in the atheist blogosphere. She blogs at the cleverly named Greta
Christina’s Blog, and her writing has appeared in numerous magazines,
newspapers, and anthologies, including Salon, AlterNet, and the Chicago
Sun-Times. She is editor of the Best Erotic Comics anthology series, and
of Paying For It: A Guide by Sex Workers for Their Clients. She is
co-organizer of the Godless Perverts, an organization that presents and
promotes a positive view of sexuality without religion. She tweets at
@GretaChristina. She lives in San Francisco with her wife, Ingrid.
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Airial Clark

Airial Clark, M.A is the founder of The Sex-Positive Parent. She has a Master’s degree in Sexuality Studies from San Francisco State and also a rambunctious single-parent of two teenage sons. Airial graduated from UC Berkeley in 2007 with a BA in English Literature and Anthropology. She is a contributing writer for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Oakland Local, Good Vibrations Magazine, the Sex Positive Photo Project of the SF Bay Area and Shades Magazine.
Airial presented her graduate level research on the intersections of race, non-monogamy and parenting at the Open SF conference and will be presenting two sessions at this year's CatalysCon West. Airial sees the mission of her work to provide strategies and support for sex-positive parenting; specializing in community building for parents with alternative sexualities. She leads parent-education workshops, provides one-on-one parent coaching and consults other sex educators on how to include parents in their work.
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Cheryl Cohen Greene

Cheryl Cohen Greene has been in private clinical practice as a Surrogate Partner and Consultant in Human Sexuality in Berkeley, CA since 1973. She was trained in the Masters and Johnson modality. She was on the training staff of San Francisco Sex Information for 19 years. She is a Certified Clinical Sexologist / Sex Educator and in 2004 she earned her DHS (Doctor of Human Sexuality) from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. Currently Cohen Greene serves as the Vice President of IPSA (the International Professional Surrogates Association). She is a frequent media guest, who has been interviewed on Larry King Live, the National Geographic Channel, the WE Channel, Joy Behar’s Show, Say Anything, and CNN among others. Her work with poet and journalist Mark O’Brien was adapted into a major motion picture titled THE SESSIONS starring Helen Hunt as Cheryl Cohen Greene. Cohen Greene’s memoir AN INTIMATE LIFE, Sex, Love, and My Journey As A Surrogate Partner, was released in January 2013.
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Susan Colvin

Susan Colvin founded, and is the President and CEO, of California Exotic Novelties, the world’s largest and most respected pleasure product manufacturer, and of JOPEN, the premiere luxury toy company. She has three college degrees: Bachelor of Arts with a major in Speech Communication and minor in Political Science, Master of Public Administration with an emphasis in Energy Administration, both from the University of New Mexico, and a Master of Business Administration from Central Michigan University. With a strong work ethic and a passion for empowering women and couples, Susan revolutionized the pleasure product industry. She developed the first toys in pink and purple colors and packaged them to appeal to women. She intuitively understood pleasure products and developed a long list of innovations including the first: waterproof, rechargeable, wireless, and more. As an innovator and pioneer, Susan and her companies have been honored with many awards, including: Business Woman of the Year—2012 from EAN, Manufacturer of the Year—2013 from StorErotica, and Best Pleasure Product Manufacturer—2013 from AVN.
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T Cooper

T COOPER is the author of three novels, including The Beaufort Diaries and Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes. He is also editor of an anthology of original stories entitled A Fictional History of the United States With Huge Chunks Missing. His most recent book, Real Man Adventures, has just been published (by McSweeney’s Books). T Cooper was born and raised in Los Angeles, attended Middlebury College in Vermont, and then taught high school in New Orleans before settling in New York City in 1996. He earned an MFA from Columbia University, and in addition to his novels, T’s work has appeared in a variety of publications and anthologies, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Believer, One Story, Electric Literature, and some others.
His short story “Swimming” was one of “100 Distinguished Stories” in The Best American Short Stories 2008 (ed. Salman Rushdie).
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Heather Corinna

Heather Corinna is an activist, writer, artist and educator and the founder and director of Scarleteen.com, the most widely used online sex education resource for young people which has been online since 1998. She is also the author of S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-to-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide to Get You Through High School and College.
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Cheri Curry-Poe

Cheri Curry-Poe, Sportsheets
Cheri is the Sales Manager at Sportsheets International. She has been helping the sales team fine tune their customer service practices and increase sales along with customer satisfaction since December 2011. Prior to coming to Sportsheets she worked as an aircraft sales and acquisitions representative. She later moved into a project manager position for a critical contractor for US department of defense. She has been in sales, marketing, and customer contact for over 20 years and during that time was co-owner of a cutting edge multimedia and marketing firm. On her time off she enjoys sailing with her husband, riding horses, paddle boarding and spending time with her two teenage sons.
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Liandra Dahl

Liandra Dahl: I'm British born but I have lived in Melbourne,
Australia since 2002. I first made amateur porn in 2004. I was the hostess
for ifeelmyself.com, I also appeared on ishotmyself.com and
beautifulagony.com primarily for the money KACHING! I was supporting myself
through a Bachelor of Arts degree but also to have a hedonistic adventure.
As a committed voyeur I love to watch and as a confirmed exhibitionist I
also love to show, thus producer/performer was the obvious next step. On
25th December 2010 I started my own adult website LiandraDahl.com. I’m queer
and I’m attracted to masculine, feminine and androgynous people. I wanted to
present my own desires in a more pluralist view of adult sexuality than I
had previously experienced. LiandraDahl.com is a website of adult consensual
sexuality inclusive of all gender identities and sexualities. I strive for a
great deal of creative input from the contributor that reflects what they
enjoy doing sexually, their desires and their fantasies.
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Cyndi Darnell

One of Australia’s leading sex therapists and sex educators with over 20 years experience studying human sexuality from the clinical to the esoteric. Her work and commentary has been sought for media around the country including Channel 10’s The Project, ABC Radio National, Triple J, Triple R, JOY 94.9, ABC Melbourne with Jon Faine, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Mamamia and both Aust. Women’s & Men’s Health Magazines. She was also a co-creator of six educational podcasts with Catherine Deveny on popular topics in adult sex education. She was the founder and host of Pleasure Forum Australia which ran in Melbourne from 2010- 2013. Cyndi has also hosted events and spoke at The Wheeler Centre, Victoria University, University of Melbourne, Family Planning Victoria, Arts Access Victoria , Aust. College of Applied Psychology, and she was a panelist with the prestigious Sydney ‘‘Women Say Something’’ event.
Cyndi counsels individuals, couples & beyond on issues related to sex and relationships from her practice in Melbourne and globally via Skype. She runs comprehensive and entertaining educational seminars and workshops on adult sexuality, pleasure & relationships both in Australia and globally to demystify sex and emphasize pleasure.
Cyndi is known for her capacity to offer practical information, esoteric insight and emotional warmth & reassurance all wrapped up in light -hearted Australian humor and fabulous footwear. She is uniquely placed to be able to bridge the world of sexology from a variety of perspectives and approaches that embrace, understand and challenge the diversity of human sexuality
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Sandra Daugherty

Sandra Daugherty punches sexual shame in the face. Also known as Sex Nerd Sandra, she speaks, educates, hosts, podcasts and pundits. Her sex-positive teaching methods include heavy doses of physical comedy, playful insight and delightful factoids. Known the world over for her Nerdist Industries podcast, “Sex Nerd Sandra,” its loyal listenership (almost 13 million downloads) is vocal about Sandra’s impact, describing her as “inspiring” with “contagious enthusiasm” and an “awesome nerd-like ability that [she’s] not afraid to show.” Sandra can be seen on Fusion TV (The Search for Sexy), The Young Turks (Think Tank, Common Room, The Point) and weekly in your earholes. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she is an avid traveler and lover of big questions.
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Frenchie Davis

Frenchie Davis is an authority on Human Sexuality with a focus on the African-American community. She combines her love and expertise of social services, education, and pop-culture to Entertain, Educate and Enhance the emotional and sexiological intelligence of her audiences. She has an extensive history in social services and built her expertise through HIV/AIDS advocacy, managing crisis shelters for battered women and their children and community outreach. Many got to know Frenchie through her debut appearance on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam in 2003 when she performed an erotic poem from her book titled: Not From Between My Thighs. Frenchie became one of the first African-American poets to be sold at the first Museum of Sex in New York City. Now Frenchie has a consultant company, Libido Talk. Frenchie works both nationally and internationally through workshops, lectures, blogging and TV appearances and also produced an edge cutting sexuality talk show, “Libido Talk” on WBAI 99.5 FM of NYC
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Heath Fogg Davis

Heath Fogg Davis is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University, where he teaches courses on anti-discrimination law, political theory and public policy. Davis also consults with businesses, schools, and organizations to help them imagine, develop and implement trans-inclusive policies that are institutionally smart. He was recently appointed to the Mayor’s Commission on LGBT Affairs in Philadelphia, and has been an organizer of the Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference. He is the author of Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? (NYU Press), which questions our need for gender markers on birth certificates, driver’s licenses, passports, college admissions, bathroom doors, and in sports.
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Coyote Days

Coyote Days of Good Vibrations: Good Vibrations is a diverse, woman-focused retailer providing high-quality, sex-positive products and non-judgmental, accurate sex information through our clean and comfortable stores, catalog, web site, wholesale division, product and movie production lines in order to enhance our customers’ sex lives and promote healthy attitudes about sex. Coyote Days is a queer femme making a living buying & developing sex toys for Good Vibrations.
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Dixie De La Tour

Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour founded Bawdy Storytelling, (the Nation’s Original sex and storytelling series featuring Real People & Rockstars) almost 7 years ago as a way to encourage real connection in San Francisco’s sexual underground. All in all, she’s been welcoming newcomers to San Francisco’s sexual underground for over 15 years (De La Tour, as in Tour Guide) - from creating, producing, volunteering for and managing sex positive events, to producing private parties, to teaching workshops, writing about sex & dating, community managing adult dating sites and much more. Dixie hopes to build Bawdy Storytelling into a national event because sexpositive community starts with a personal story; Storytelling makes sex education fun and entertaining and makes it a little harder to judge other people for their choices – listening to just one person’s story can start you down the road to empathy and acceptance for the ‘other.’
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James Deen

Since the age of 18, Deen's boy-next-door good looks helped him carve out a niche within the adult industry. Over 4,000 scenes later and Deen is now considered the top male porn star in the world. Deen is the youngest ever to earn Male Performer of the Year honors at the AVN, XBIZ, and XRCO awards shows. He is highly lauded within the adult industry with numerous award wins steadily throughout his career. Deen’s accomplishments extend far beyond the adult industry, with mainstream reporters chronicling his popularity as he continues to break down societal barriers. Popular female-oriented website Jezebel.com often reports on Deen’s large female fan-base, calling him the “permanent crush of all straight ladydom.” In 2012, Hollywood screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis and director Paul Schrader cast Deen opposite Lindsay Lohan in the feature film “The Canyons" which premiered internationally at the Venice Film Festival with Deen in attendance.
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Sophie Delancey

Sophie Delancey is a porn creator and advocate devoted to spreading the message that porn can be both beautiful and ethical. She is the Vice President of a group of erotic websites including the Feminist Porn Award-winning website TheArtofBlowjob.com and the newly minted site TheArtofCunnilingus.com.
She co-hosts a monthly sexy storytelling event in Toronto called Tell Me Something Good with Samantha Fraser at the Gladstone Hotel as well as the weekly Tell Me Something Good podcast on the Swingset.FM network. She is also one of the hosts of Sex City Radio on CIUT 89.5 FM.
Sophie has written for numerous sexuality/porn sites, has appeared on many radio shows/podcasts and has spoken and taught workshops at numerous schools, conferences and events, including delivering papers at both editions of the Feminist Porn Conference. As an educator, her work focuses on porn literacy, porn and relationships, DIY porn, discovering and discussing desires, oral sex techniques and body positivity.
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Dee Dennis

An activist in the field of sexuality, Dee Dennis started her career as a sex blogger, writing about the end of her marriage and starting the next chapter in her life. Through this metamorphosis, Dee discovered her passion for sexuality rights and issues for people around the world. In 2012, Dee founded CatalystCon, which she regards as a “melting pot of sexuality” that unites sex educators, sexologists, sex workers, writers, activists, and anyone with a passion for creating change. To Dee, “knowledge is power, and sharing that knowledge is the first spark in igniting change.” This is the fundamental principle behind CatalystCon.
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Amy Dentata

Amy Dentata is a writer, game designer, artist, and performer who touches on topics including trauma recovery, mental illness, sexuality, futurism, and transgender issues. She started performing music at open mics in her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, before moving to the Bay to pursue a career as a game artist. While attending school in San Francisco, she simultaneously discovered the SF Queer Open Mic and a love for spoken word. She now creates using every medium at her disposal.
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Catherine Deveny

Catherine Deveny is a writer, comedian, author, social commentator and speaker well known for her work as a columnist with The Age newspaper, as a Melbourne International Comedy Festival favorite and as a ABC regular. Wedged between her busy speaking schedule and working on two books for Black Inc Books she is currently a columnist for the Guardian.
Deveny’s television work includes Network Seven’s Tonight Live with Steve Vizard, Full Frontal, ABC TV’s Good News Week, BackBerner and Q and A, Network 10’s Rove Live, The Wedge and skitHOUSE and The Project. She performs regularly on radio and television and was a popular fill in broadcaster on 774 ABC Melbourne.
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KD DIAMOND

KD DIAMOND has spent the last decade drawing, sketching, and doodling all manner of things, but specifically things related to sex. She’s illustrated ten erotic how-to books, the most recent being Girl Sex 101, a 400-page comprehensive sex-ed guide wrapped in a road-trip. Other titles Diamond has lent her artistry to include The Ultimate Guide to Kink, Playing Well With Others, The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure, and Partners in Pleasure. Her comic art has been featured in various papers and magazines, and the anthology Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation. She also illustrated and designed Backwards Day, a gender non-conforming children’s book by S. Bear Bergman; she serves as the Art Director for Bergman’s Flamingo Rampant imprint. Additionally, Diamond is the founder and editor of Salacious, a queer feminist anti-racist porno mag. Since 2010, Salacious has released four compilations of dirty comics, erotica, and photography. View Guest page

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Doctor X. Treme

Doctor X. Treme is an applied physicist who builds sex machines. He did a double degree in physics and math from Berkeley and then a Ph.D. in applied physics from Yale with the intent of eventually building useful things. After building obscure measurement tools for quantum information for 6 years he quit to apply physics to sex toy design, starting with the x1 Orgasmatron, and now the Ambrosia vibe. He lives in Denver, CO.
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Betty Dodson

Betty Dodson, artist, author, and PhD sexologist has been one of the principal voices for women's sexual pleasure and health for over three decades. Dodson had the first one-woman show of erotic art in ’68 in NYC followed by three others. For 25 years, she ran Bodysex groups where women learned about their bodies and orgasms through the practice of self-stimulation. Her first book, Liberating Masturbation: A Meditation on Selflove (’74) became a feminist classic. Sex for One (’87) sold over a million copies. Orgasms for Two (’02) embraces partner sex and My Romantic Love Wars: A Sexual Memoir details her experiences with America's Sexual Revolution, the women's movement and her feminist sexual activism with bodysex groups that she conducted for 25 years. In 1994, she earned a PhD in clinical sexology. Dodson has presented at conferences for sexual scientists, therapists, and psychologists. View Guest page

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Dr. Chris Donaghue

Dr. Chris Donaghue is a Doctor of Clinical Sexology and Human Sexuality, Doctoral trained in Clinical Psychology, Licensed Clinical Therapist, and a Certified Sex Therapist. Dr. Donaghue is an international lecturer and educator, nationally recognized as a sex and relationship expert appearing on WE tv’s “Sex Box”, Logo tv’s “Bad Sex”, and having been featured in Newsweek, and seen on The Today Show, CNN, HLN, Nightline, The Doctors, OWN, and National Geographic.
He is also the author of the book, “Sex Outside the Lines: Authentic Sexuality in a Sexually Dysfunctional Culture”.
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Ducky Doolittle

Ducky Doolittle is the author of Sex With The Lights On:
200 Illuminating Sex Questions Answered. She has spent the last two decades working in the field of sexuality. She is a certified emergency room Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Counselor and has trained with Planned Parenthood in comprehensive STD prevention and comprehensive & medically accurate sex education. Ducky tours internationally, performing on campuses, medical schools, bachelorette parties, homeless youth drop-in centers, book clubs, church groups, sex shops and anywhere else she can gather a crowd. She has appeared on HBOs Real Sex, The Morning Show, MTV, NPR, The Howard Stern Show, and Playboy TV... to name a few. Ducky’s unabashed openness about her life developed into a successful career as a journalist and advice columnist.
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Chelsea Downs

Chelsea Downs was born and raised in New York City. She is Biracial Black and Jewish, a chess player, sports & pop culture junkie who graduated from Hunter College High School and received a full scholarship to Colby College. Downs had a 6 year tenure with Viacom including positions within MTV Networks, Comedy Central and Nicklodeon and is a co-Founder of New York Toy Collective, the largest and fastest growing adult toy manufacturing company on the east coast. NYTC offers a variety of hand made adult toysand they are the first and only adult toy manufacture to offer 3d scanning and replicas making it possible to create replicas. View Guest page

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Jessica Drake

One of adult film’s most celebrated actresses, Wicked Pictures contract star Jessica Drake is making her mark as a sex educator by combining her passion for teaching sexual responsibility with her goal of helping couples discover their erotic potential. Uniting a lifetime of study with a decade’s worth of experiential research, this charming Texan is sharing her expertise with audiences around the globe in Jessica Drake’s Guide to Wicked Sex. Each subject is explored with the same distinct blend of factual demonstration and good humor that has led Gawker Media’s Fleshbot to laud this three-time AVN Best Actress winner for bringing a “sexy, articulate and professional” voice to the sexual self-help genre. A source of sexual inspiration for the adult industry as well as society at large, Jessica is also spearheading Wicked Pictures’ involvement in Adult Production Health & Safety Services, a program designed by the Free Speech Coalition to provide producers and performers with a reliable protocol and database for STI testing.
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Cleo Dubois

Cleo Dubois is a BDSM Educator, ritualist, and creator of the Academy of S/M Arts. A versatile sadomasochist , she came out in the San Francisco Leather Scene in the early 80s. She made two popular docu-films, "The Pain Game" and "Tie Me Up," & presents at local and national leather events. She offers, with Eve Minax, Erotic Dominance Intensives Weekends focused on connecting heat, heart and spirit in our consensual power play. Helping new comers embrace their kink and mentoring couple play in the privacy of her dungeon are her specialties.
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Kelli Dunham

Kelli Dunham is the ex-nun genderqueer nurse storytelling nerd comic so common in modern Brooklyn.Kelli has appeared on Showtime, the Discovery Channel and at colleges, prides, and the occasional livestock auction. She is the author of seven books of humorous mostly health related nonfiction, including the 2013 Freak of Nurture (Topside Press), a collection of horrifying/funny tales of grief, caregiving and exploding knee replacements. Kelli was nominated to be a 2105 White House Champion of Change for her work as the co-founder and producer of Queer Memoir, NYC's longest-running most earnest LGBT storytelling event. She is the founder and producer of Organ Recital: A Festival of Stories About Bodies, Health & Healthcare. Her one person shows include Bad Habit (tales of an ex-nun), Pudding Day and the current Jesus Was No Sissy, about how good Christian girls who might be boys learn about masculinity and femininity and the size of Jesus' biceps at the Lord's Boot Camp and beyond.
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Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders

When she was sworn in as Surgeon General, Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders became the first African American and the second woman to hold that post. As Surgeon General, Dr. Elders initiated programs to combat youth smoking and teen pregnancy and to increase childhood immunizations. As a private citizen, she continues to lobby tirelessly for the health needs of the young, the poor and the powerless. A pediatric endocrinologist, Dr. Elders has a deep concern for the welfare of children. She believes that violence, sexually transmitted diseases, poverty and substance abuse are the biggest threats to the health and wellness of our children. She advocates public health over profits in health care reform, openness over censorship in sex education, and rehabilitation over incarceration in the war against drugs. Her presentations on sexual health and education are both frank and informative. In her lectures and in her book, From Sharecropper’s Daughter to Surgeon General of the United States, she addresses the importance of good prenatal care, the future of healthcare reform, women’s health concerns, current treatments for HIV/AIDS, and meeting the needs of older Americans.
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Dean Elliott

Dean Elliott is the larger than life Founder & CEO of Sliquid, LLC.
Dean is what might be considered a serial entrepreneur, having been a part of what seems to be every industry imaginable since earning his liberal arts degree from NYU. Starting in the late 90′s, Dean was coordinating location logistics, including security, medic & transportation, for the booming reality TV industry. He worked on just about every reality show you can name, on location all over the world.
At the same time, Dean was building a reputation as a successful voiceover artist, voicing spots for many of the coolest brands, including Volvo & the WWF. Everything Dean does, he does wholeheartedly, and with a passion for excellence. He came up with the idea for Sliquid at the beginning of the new millennium, and had products formulated and on shelves within 2 years. Since then, Dean has grown Sliquid into one of the biggest and most respected brands of intimate products, with no signs of slowing down. Don’t think he has gotten comfortable though – Dean is currently working hard on his next
venture(s) – and you can be sure it will be a success.
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Stephen Elliott

Stephen Elliott is the author of seven books including the memoir The Adderall Diaries and the novel Happy Baby. He founded the online literary magazine The Rumpus. Cherry is his directorial debut. View Guest page

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Aislinn Emirzian

Aislinn Emirzian is a sexuality educator and workshop instructor based in San Francisco. She became a peer sexuality educator at Smith College, and later worked with sex positive adult toy stores like Oh My Sensuality Shop in Massachusetts and Good Vibrations in California. Over the years, she has taught workshops on a wide range of topics, but prostate pleasure is her favorite! View Guest page

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Epiphora

For six years, Epiphora has been testing sex toys and writing about them on the internet. Highly trusted and well-known for her snarky style, she's the antidote to the coy, euphemistic sugar-coating that plagues bad sex writing. Many loyal readers entrust their future orgasms to her, and she does not take that honor lightly.
As a trusted voice in the sex toy landscape, Epiphora has been featured on Slate, VICE, and in XBIZ Premiere magazine, she participated in a panel at CatalystCon, SheVibe made her into a superhero, Kinkly named her the #1 Sex Blogging Superhero of 2013, and she was quoted in Tristan Taormino’s book, The Secrets of Great G-Spot Orgasms and Female Ejaculation.
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Epiphora

Epiphora has a very discerning vagina. For six years, she has been testing sex toys and writing about them on the internet. Her popular blog, Hey Epiphora, is filled to the brim with relentlessly honest sex toy reviews, matter-of-fact masturbation journals, industry critiques, and sex blogging tips. Highly trusted and well-known for her snarky style, she is the antidote to the coy, euphemistic sugar-coating that plagues bad sex writing. Many loyal readers entrust their future orgasms to her. As a trusted voice in the sex toy landscape, Epiphora has been featured on Playboy, Bitch, Slate, and VICE, interviewed in XBIZ Premiere magazine, and quoted in Tristan Taormino's book, The Secrets of Great G-Spot Orgasms and Female Ejaculation. She was also named Kinkly's #1 Sex Blogging Superhero of 2013.
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Bridget Everett

Bridget Everett is a singing tour de force known for her funny yet gut-wrenching, outrageous and unpredictable performance work. She’s been dubbed “Wynona Judd meets Melissa Etheridge, via the local bar floozy, on a rocket ship out of Twin Peaks” by Michael Musto from the Village Voice. She has appeared frequently on Time Out New York’s annual list of top cabaret performers, ranking number one in 2010 on a list which included Alan Cumming and Elaine Stritch. Bridget co-hosted Our Hit Parade, a sold-out monthly revue of current pop hits, with Kenny Mellman (Kiki and Herb) and Neal Medlyn at Joe’s Pub. She starred in the original musical At Least It’s Pink based on her life which she co-wrote with director Michael Patrick King (writer/director of hit tv series Sex and the City) and Mellman which played Ars Nova for 12 weeks. She can be seen as Cathy in the Sex and the City movie and as Shonda in the CBS hit comedy, 2 Broke Girls. View Guest page

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Lauren Marie Fleming

Lauren Marie Fleming takes the guilty out of pleasure. An audacious storyteller, she wrote the book Bawdy Love: 10 Steps to Profoundly Loving Your Body, hosts the Bawdy Love podcast, and leads the #BawdyLove revolution, a movement to banish shame and fill our lives with decadence, delight, and joy. From crowds of thousands to groups of six, Lauren facilitates life-changing conversations with her motivational speaking, intensive workshops, and intimate retreats. Through her work, Lauren has helped people all over the globe silence their inner critics, connect with their deeper Truths, and feel comfortable and confident in their bodies. For six years, Lauren ran the acclaimed sex blog Queerie Bradshaw, but now you can find her writing, programs, and products at LaurenMarieFleming.com.
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April Flores

April Flores is a muse, model, and erotic performer but that’s not even scratching the surface. A fearless voluptuous star with scarlet hair, proponent of the queer community, feminist, sex-positive activist, outspoken advocate of body diversity, glamorous art model, avid kink fan, sub and dom both, and all around powerful woman. April is the first ever BBW to win two consecutive AVN Awards for her groundbreaking work. She has also graced the covers of Bizarre and AVN Magazines, among others, modeled for dozens of fine art photographers, appeared in countless adult films in every genre of the adult industry (from mainstream to queer to kinky to artsy), and spoken out about body image and sexuality at countless venues.
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April Flores

April Flores is a muse, model, and erotic performer but that’s not even scratching the surface. A fearless voluptuous star with scarlet hair, proponent of the queer community, feminist, sex-positive activist, outspoken advocate of body diversity, glamorous art model, avid kink fan, sub and dom both, and all around powerful woman. April is the first ever BBW to win two consecutive AVN Awards for her groundbreaking work. She is the host of Vivid Radio's Voluptuous Life, has also graced the covers of Bizarre and AVN Magazines, among others; modeled for dozens of fine art photographers; appeared in countless adult films in every genre of the adult industry (from mainstream to queer to kinky to artsy); and spoken out about body image through her mere presence and powerful sexuality, along with her activism.
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Eric Francis

Eric Francis is the founder of Planet Waves, the sexpositive astrology website, and the author of Book of Blue, an erotic memoir told in photos and essays. He hosts Planet Waves FM, which is webcast at www.PlanetWaves.fm
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Matie Fricker

Matie Fricker is the co-owner of Self Serve Sexuality Resource in Albuquerque, New Mexico & selfservetoys.com. Matie and her business partner Molly Adler opened Self Serve in 2007 to bring positive sexuality into the light of day, creating access for adults to find healthy experiences of sexuality. Molly and Matie have been awarded the 2008 Tough Cookie Award from the National Association for Women Business Owners, Self Serve has won Best Sexy Shop in the Albuquerque Alibi for the last six years and Albuquerque Pride’s Most Outstanding Store Award. Matie is also the director of Pornotopia:
Albuquerque's infamous community run porn festival. One of her proudest accomplishments was causing Rush Limbaugh to say “female orgasm” on-air multiple times.
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Jaclyn Friedman

Jaclyn Friedman is a writer, performer, and activist, and the editor of the hit book Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape (one of Publishers' Weekly's Top 100 Books of 2009).
Friedman is a popular speaker on campuses and at conferences across the U.S. and beyond. She has been a guest on BBC World Have Your Say, Democracy Now, To The Contrary, and numerous other radio and television shows, and her commentary has appeared in outlets including CNN, The Washington Post, The Nation, Jezebel, Feministing.com, The American Prospect, Bitch, AlterNet, and The Huffington Post. She is a SheSource expert, and was named one of 2009's Top 40 Progressive Leaders Under 40 by the New Leaders Council.
Friedman is a founder and the Executive Director of Women, Action & the Media, a national organization working for gender justice in media. She is also a charter member of CounterQuo, a coalition dedicated to challenging the ways we respond to sexual violence.
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Mason Funk

Mason Funk was born in Los Angeles. At 15, he became a born-again Christian, and also realized he was gay. He had no idea how to solve this dilemma. Little did he know that already, LGBTQ pioneers across America were fighting for Mason’s right to one day live proudly as a gay man.
Mason went to college at Stanford, and slowly embraced his sexuality. In his late 20’s, he fell in love with a Portuguese man, moved to Portugal, and began working in film and TV.
In 1993, Mason returned to Los Angeles. Since then, he has produced hundreds of hours of award-winning content for networks like the Discovery Channel, Nat Geo, and Fox Sports.
Over his career, Mason discovered that the part of his job he enjoyed most was interviewing people. In 2014, he decided to use this passion to create the first comprehensive interview archive of LGBTQ pioneers. Although many LGBTQ elders have passed away, there is still time to capture the stories of those still living. This is the mission of OUTWORDS.
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Lynsey G.

Lynsey G. is a writerly type who has focused primarily on the intersection of pornography, feminism, and sexuality for the past decade as a reviewer, interviewer, critic, documentary filmmaker, and blogger. Her work across multiple genres and areas of interest has appeared in places like MEL Magazine, Refinery29, Bitch Magazine, Bust Magazine, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Luna Luna Magazine, The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, Stirring: A Literary Journal, and elsewhere. After many years of doing daily battle with the New York City subway system and never triumphing, she now resides in Missoula, Montana.
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Cindy Gallop

Cindy Gallop is a graduate of Somerville College, Oxford, whose background
is brandbuilding, marketing and advertising - she started up the US office
of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in New York in 1998 and in 2003 was named
Advertising Woman of the Year. She is the founder and CEO of
IfWeRanTheWorld.com, a marketing platform that turns human and corporate
good intentions into collective action, launched in beta at TED 2010, and
subsequently written up and taught as a Harvard Business School case study;
and of Make Love Not Porn, launched at TED 2009. She has just launched
MakeLoveNotPorn.tv in invitation-only beta. She acts as board advisor to a
number of tech startups and consults for companies around the world,
describing her consultancy approach as 'I like to blow shit up. I am the
Michael Bay of business.'
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Shanna Germain

Shanna Germain claims the titles of writer, editor, leximaven, vorpal blonde, and schrodinger's brat. With a whole lot of writing years under her belt (or her collar, depending on the day), Shanna’s poems, essays, short stories, novellas, articles and more have found homes in hundreds of magazines, newspapers, books and websites. An Associate Fellow at the Attic Institute in Portland, OR, she has taught classes in writing, publishing, media and photography at a wide variety of places. She’s even garnered an award here and there, including a Pushcart nomination, the Rauxa Prize for Erotic Poetry and the C.
Hamilton Bailey Poetry Fellowship. Her most recent projects include Geek Love: An Anthology of Full Frontal Nerdity; Bound by Lust (Cleis Press); and Numenera, a tabletop roleplaying game from Monte Cook Games, LLC.
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Charlie Glickman PhD

Charlie Glickman PhD has been a sexuality educator for over twenty years. He teaches workshops on a wide range of topics, including sex-positivity, sex & shame, gender & masculinity, sexual orientation, communities of erotic affiliation, and many sexual practices such as prostate play, anal sex, pegging, sex toys, BDSM, and polyamory. Charlie also presents at conferences and community events, offers trainings on sexuality for medical professionals, therapists, and clergy. He is certified as a sexuality educator by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists and is the Education Program Manager at Good Vibrations. View Guest page

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Amy Jo Goddard

As a Sexual Empowerment expert and thought leader, Amy Jo Goddard has guided thousands of people towards the wholeness and fulfillment they want, sexually and in other aspects of their lives. She earned her Master’s degree in Human Sexuality Education from New York University and has 20 years of experience in the sexuality field. As a renowned speaker and teacher, Amy Jo travels to colleges, communities, and conferences teaching classes and offering keynotes that help people to connect the dots around sexuality and money, expand their creativity, grow their confidence and learn to be bigger in their relationships, in business, and in the world. She delivered her TEDx talk “Owning Your Sexual Power” in March, 2014 in Napa Valley, was named one of GO! Magazin’s “100 Women We Love” in 2010 and one of Kinkly’s ”100 Sex Blogging Superheros” in 2013. Her second book is Woman on Fire: 9 Elements to Wake up Your Erotic Energy, Personal Power and Sexual Intelligence (Penguin).
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Kale Gosen

Kale Gosen loves geeking out about relationships and sexuality. That, along with a deep need to continually be learning new things, led her to create the website www.relationship-anarchy.com, to start a Facebook group, to lead a monthly discussion night in Vancouver BC, to create videos on YouTube, start a podcast, and organize Converge Con, the first conference of it’s kind on the west coast of Canada. She is a queer relationship anarchist, and spoke about relationship anarchy at Harvard in 2016.
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Melissa Gira Grant

Melissa Gira Grant is a writer and freelance journalist covering sex, tech, and politics, in the streets and everywhere else.
Her latest book, Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Verso, 2014) challenges the myths about selling sex and those who perpetuate them.
Her reporting and commentary appears in The Nation, Wired,The Atlantic, Glamour, The Guardian, In These Times, The Washington Post, Dissent, Slate, Salon, and Valleywag, among other publications, and she's a contributing editor at Jacobin. Grant lives in New York.
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Sacchi Green

Sacchi Green is a Lambda award-winning writer and editor of erotica and other stimulating genres. Her stories have appeared in scores of publications, including seven volumes of Best Lesbian Erotica, four of Best Women’s Erotica, four of Best Lesbian Romance, Best Transgender Erotica, Best Fantasy Erotica, and Penthouse. She’s also edited nine lesbian erotica anthologies: Rode Hard, Put Away Wet (Suspect Thoughts Press); Hard Road, Easy Riding (Lethe Press); Lipstick on Her Collar (Pretty Things Press), and Lesbian Cowboys, Girl Crazy, Lesbian Lust, Lesbian Cops, Girl Fever, and Wild Girls, Wild Nights, all from Cleis Press. A collection of her own work, ¬A Ride to Remember, has been published by Lethe Press. Five of her books have been Lambda Award finalists, and Lesbian Cowboys, co-edited with Rakelle Valencia, won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Erotica in 2010.
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Ernest Greene

Ernest Greene has been Executive Editor of Hustler's Taboo, world's best-selling hardcore kink-sex magazine for 13 years. He has been writing, producing, directing and performing in adult video since 1984. With his wife, Nina Hartley, he has co-produced and directed 40 installments of Nina's Guides, the most successful explicit sex education videos in the history of the video industry with over a million copies sold. His trilogy of X-rated features - O - The Power of Submission, The Surrender of O and most recently, The Truth About O are credited with bringing consensual BDSM sexuality into mainstream adult video.
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Conner Habib

Conner Habib is an author, a lecturer, a porn performer, and a sex workers’ rights advocate. He serves as Vice President of the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee and is a member of PEN America. His essays have appeared in dozens of print and online publications, including The Stranger, Vice, Salon, Slate, and more. Habib gives lectures around the country about sexuality, spirituality, pornography, science, and art. He teaches writing one-on-one and in groups. For seven years, Habib was an award-winning gay adult performer, and continues, occasionally, to perform in adult film. He is the only person who has ever won awards for writing, teaching AND porn.
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Conner Habib

Conner Habib is an author, a lecturer, and the Vice President of the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee. He's probably the only person alive who's won awards for writing, teaching, and porn. He lives in Los Angeles, and his twitter is @connerhabib.
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Staci K. Haines

Staci K. Haines is the developer of generative somatics and the Somatics and Trauma courses. Her work emerges from the Somatics tradition of Richard Strozzi Hecklerintegrating Polarity Therapy, Gestalt, Vipassana meditation and Aikido. She is a senior teacher in the field of Somatics and leads courses in Somatics and Leadership, Somatics and Trauma, and Somatics and Social Justice. In addition she is the founder of generationFIVE, a social justice organization whose mission is to end the sexual abuse of children, and the author of Healing Sex: A Mind Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma.
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Jack Halberstam

Jack Halberstam is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of five books including: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011) and Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012) and has written articles that have appeared in numerous journals, magazines and collections. Halberstam is currently working on several projects including a book on Fascism and (homo)sexuality.
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Janet W. Hardy

Janet W. Hardy is the author or co-author of 11 books about alternative sexualities, including the underground bestseller "The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures" (Random House, 2009), and her new memoir "Girlfag: A Life Told In Sex and Musicals" (Beyond Binary Books, 2012). She lives, writes and cooks with her spouse, dogs, cat and chickens in Eugene, Oregon. View Guest page

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Lee Harrington

Lee Harrington is an internationally known spiritual and erotic authenticity educator, gender explorer, eclectic artist and award-winning author and editor on human erotic and sacred experience. He’s been traveling the globe (Seattle to Sydney, Berlin to Boston), teaching and talking about sexuality, psychology, faith and desire, and believes you deserve passion and connection in your life. His books include “Playing Well With Others: Your Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Negotiating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities” (with Mollena Williams), “Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond,” and “Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé,” amongst many others. Lee has been a passion instigator, academic, adult film performer, world class sexual adventurer, outspoken philosopher, kink/bondage expert, and has been blogging about sex and spirit since 1998. Read more about Lee at PassionAndSoul.com.
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Nina Hartley

Nina Hartley is a pioneering feminist worker, using her body in the service of promoting a sexually sane and literate society. For the past thirty years her rock-solid commitment to the importance of sexual autonomy has fueled Nina Hartley’s career in adult entertainment. As a performer, director, writer, educator, public speaker, and feminist thinker for all, no matter their orientation, she’s traveled the world to deliver her message. She’s the author of, “Nina Hartley’s Guide to Total Sex,” from Avery Press. Putting to use her B.S. degree in nursing, she and her husband, I.S. Levine, have produced the million-selling sex-ed video series collectively known as “The Nina Hartley Guides,” from Adam & Eve, currently in its 38th episode. Still active in front of the camera, she and her husband live in Los Angeles. View Guest page

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Debby Herbenick

Debby Herbenick, PhD, MPH is an associate professor in Indiana University’s School of Public Health, director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion, and a research fellow and sexual health educator at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. She is the author of more than 90 scientific publications about sexual health and relationships and a lead scientist on the 2009, 2012, 2013, and 2014 National Surveys of Sexual Health and Behavior. Passionate about sexuality education, Dr. Herbenick has taught Human Sexuality at IU for the past 12 years, published six books about sex and love (her most recent is "The Coregasm Workout"), published thousands of newspaper and magazine columns about sexuality, and is currently the president-elect of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT). Dr. Herbenick works on a range of research and education projects related to women’s sexual pleasure, pain during intercourse
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Lorraine Hewitt

Lorraine Hewitt (aka CoCo La Crème) is an experienced sex educator who has been enhancing the sex lives of Torontonians for over 10 years. Her wealth of knowledge, warm personality and wicked sense of humour ensure that her classes are always as comfortable as they are informative. Lorraine focusses on teaching essential sensual skills and improving erotic communication and her work has been featured on numerous television shows, major print publications and blogs. She presents several workshops including Giving Great Head, Flirtation 101, Romantic Sex for Couples and Open Relationships for the Open Hearted. Lorraine is a founding member of the Feminist Porn Awards team and she currently serves as Creative Director for the event.
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Toby Hill-Meyer

In 2010 Tobi Hill-Meyer made her film making debut, winning an Award for Emerging Filmmaker of the year and being named #3 in Velvet Park Media's list of the 25 Most Significant Queer Women of 2010. She is a multiracial trans woman with a long history of working with feminist and LGBTQ organizations on a local, state, and federal level, having served on several boards and offering support as a strategic consultant. Since receiving her degree in Sociology and Women and Gender Studies, Tobi has turned her focus to media analysis and productions. She is a founding member and major contributor to the media collective, Handbasket Productions. Handbasket Productions is a radical, oppression aware media collective focusing on queer culture, trans experience and sex positivity. Spanning non-fiction, fiction, and fantasy genres, we use books zines, film, music and other art to cover a variety of topics including sex work, polyamory, racism and queerspawn experience.
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Twanna A. Hines

Twanna A. Hines, M.S., is an award-winning educator, sex columnist, and TV and radio commentator focused on the sociology of sexuality and its relationship to culture and Internet technology. Founder of FUNKY BROWN CHICK®, she has contributed to CNN, NPR, Sirius, Time Out New York, Lifetime, Mashable, Nerve, New York Press, Fast Company magazine, and the Huffington Post as well as CBC (Canadian National Radio), Paris Première (French Television), and Al Jazeera. She has also been quoted in a host of outlets throughout the U.S., from New York magazine to the San Francisco Chronicle. Twanna is a syndicated sex columnist for Metro International newspapers. She has worked with health policymakers and elected officials and for the University of Chicago, Newsweek, and U.S. State Department. Having lived in London, Chicago, Amsterdam, New York, Los Angeles and The Hague, she speaks English and Dutch fluently. View Guest page

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Jessica Holter

Jessica Holter is an author, a producer and activist. She is best known for creating The Punany Poets in 1995 in answer to the growing issue of AIDS among African Americans. Her appearance on HBO's Real Sex Series sparked a theatrical and publishing career that has lasted for 21 years. Her unique urban twist on Augusto Boal's Theater of the Oppressed has inspired dissertations and conversations among academics. Her bold use of sexuality has been criticized, debated upon and praised with equal passion. For more information about her cutting edge work at www.punanylove.com.
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Tina Horn

Tina Horn is a writer, teacher, and media-maker. She produces and hosts the sexuality podcast Why Are People Into That?!. Her first book, Love Not Given Lightly, is a collection of nonfiction stories about sex workers; she has also been published in Vice, Nerve, Girl Sex 101, and Best Sex Writing 2015. Her next book, a guide to Sexting etiquette, drops in 2016. Recently, she has been working as the creative director of ThreeL (3L) media, developing books by Jiz Lee, Maxwell Lander, and Siouxsie Q; and she is the business development representative for Rentboy.com. Tina’s workshops on dirty talk, sex worker self care, and spanking have been featured at Good Vibrations, Kink.com, Lesbian Sex Mafia, International Ms Leather, the New School, and the Feminist Porn Conference. She is a LAMBDA Literary Fellow, the recipient of two Feminist Porn Awards, and holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence. Born in Northern California, Tina now lives in Manhattan.
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Shine Louise Houston

As the founding producer and director of Pink and White Productions, (CrashPadSeries.com, PinkLabel.tv), SHINE LOUISE HOUSTON has always had unique vision. Graduating from San Francisco Arts Institute with a Bachelors in Fine Art Film, her works have become the new gold standard of adult cinema. During a five year position at the women-owned, sex toy purveyor Good Vibrations, Shine recognized an underserved demand for an alternative to mainstream pornography, and began to create well-crafted queer made porn. Shine’s films have been recognized among the next big wave of women produced porn and have been internationally screened from Amsterdam to New Zealand. 2015 marks the 10th anniversary of Shine's work. This year she was honored with the "Sylvester Pride in the Arts" Award by the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, receiving a Certificate of Recognition from the State of California Legislature Assembly. Shine's upcoming film SNAPSHOT is an erotic thriller staring queer women of color
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Shine Louise Houston

As the pioneering producer and director of Pink and White Productions, Shine has always had unique vision. Graduating from San Francisco Arts Institute with a Bachelors in Fine Art Film, her works have become the new gold standard of adult cinema. During a five year position at the women-owned, sex toy purveyor Good Vibrations, Shine recognized an underserved demand for authentic woman and queer made porn. Shine’s films have been recognized as the next big wave of women produced porn and have been internationally screened from Berlin to New York.
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Rich Ivey

Rich Ivey is a photographer & filmmaker in Orlando, Florida. He is the founder of the popular adult website myfriendsfeet.com, a site dedicated to male feet, tickling, and sock fetishes.
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Jaiya

Jaiya is an internationally recognized, award-winning sexologist, author of Red Hot Touch, and the founder of New World Sex Education; a company dedicated to using “real” sex education to help men and women get the sex lives they desire. Jaiya understands that throughout life sexuality changes and strives to meet her students wherever they are on their personal path to greater pleasure. She’s been through many sexual stages and honestly shares her personal experience from pain to pleasure. Jaiya is passionate about helping women and men overcome sexual issues, usually stemming from a lack of education, that may hold them back from exquisite sex as their birthright. She believes that sex isn’t just something you do, but something that is part of being human and being alive. Her mission is to help other unleash erotic ecstasy and to shift the cultural view of sexuality from being something that is bad, wrong or shameful to something seen as healthy, and worth cultivating and celebrating
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Jacky St James

Jacky St. James is an award-winning writer and director in the adult entertainment industry dubbed by Salon.com as “the Woman Who Conquered Porn.” She’s guest lectured at UCLA, UCSB, and been featured in Slate, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, The Examiner, and many more.
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David Jay

David Jay is the founder of asexuality.org, the world's largest organization of people who identify as asexual. He has helped grow the asexual community from a dispersed group of individuals to an international movement with over 70,000 members. His work has been highlighted in the New York Times and on 20/20, and has been the subject of a feature-length documentary, (A)sexual. He regularly speaks on asexuality and works to promote open, honest dialog about the asexual community.
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Paul Joannides

Paul is a research psychoanalyst. In addition to being the author of the Guide To Getting It On, he is on the editorial board of the Journal of Sexual Medicine and he was formerly on the editorial board of the American Journal of Sexuality Education. He is an NCAA approved speaker for college athletes on sex. When he's not writing, he's a speaker on college campuses about sexuality. The Guide To Getting It On is now in its 7th edition and is used in more than 50 college sex-education courses and in medical schools. For the past year, he has done a daily broadcast for Playboy radio called "90 Seconds on Sex".
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JoEllen

JoEllen from Redhead Bedhead
The Redhead Bedhead came to life when JoEllen decided she wanted to talk about sex on the internet (“Do people even do that?!”) Now she writes for multiple outlets including Good Vibrations, Life on the Swingset and Kinkly.com as well as the now award-winning RedheadBedhead.com and tours the country on the Superhero Sex Shop Tour. A writer, educator and adult-retail consultant (she’ll make your shop a Superhero!), the Bedhead is on a mission to prove that through constant learning, perpetual experimentation, fearless collaboration, non-stop dialogue and frequent wise-assery we can save the world from mediocre sex – and have a damn good time doing it. JoEllen resides in Portland, OR, where she spends her days writing, working internet magic, geeking out about sex, and tasting all the beer.
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E. Patrick Johnson

E. Patrick Johnson is the Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University. He is also a Project& artist. He is the author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity and Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History. He is the editor of Cultural Struggles: Performance, Ethnography, Praxis by Dwight Conquergood and co-editor (with Mae G. Henderson) of Black Queer Studies—A Critical Anthology and (with Ramon Rivera-Servera) of solo/black/woman: scripts, interviews, and essays and Blaktino Queer Performance. In 2009, he translated Sweet Tea into a full-length stage play, Sweet Tea—The Play. The show has been co-produced by Jane M. Saks and Project& with the following theaters: About Face Theater (Chicago); Signature Theatre (Arlington, VA); Durham Arts Council (Durham, NC); Towne Street Theater (Los Angeles), and the Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts at Northwestern University.
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Patricia Johnson

Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson, a devoted married couple, have been teaching Tantra together since 1999. They are the authors of the award winning books, The Essence of Tantric Sexuality (Llewellyn, 2006), Tantra for Erotic Empowerment (Llewellyn 2008), and Great Sex Made Simple, which will be published in December 2012
(Llewellyn.) Their meditation CD set, Ananda Nidra: Blissful Sleep (Projekt Records) was a finalist for a 2012 COVR Visionary Award.
Michaels and Johnson wrote and appeared in two instructional DVDs produced by the Alexander Institute: Tantric Sexual Massage for Lovers and Advanced Tantric Sex Secrets. They are senior students of Tantric pioneer Dr. Jonn Mumford (Swami Anandakapila Saraswati) who has named them his lineage holders for the Americas and Europe. In addition, the two are co-founders of the Pleasure Salon, a monthly gathering in New York City that brings together sex-positive people and pleasure activists from a variety of communities.
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Ruby B Johnson

Ruby B Johnson received her Bachelors of Social Work in 2003 from Texas Women's University and her Masters of Social Work in 2005 from the University of Texas at Arlington. Since 2003, Ruby’s roles have included clinical practitioner, community and professional development educator, and graduate and under graduate adjunct professor. In private practice, her areas of expertise are substance use disorders, sex addiction, intimacy and love addiction, multi-cultural families and couples, SOGIE, polyamorous/non monogamous partnerships/families, and Kink/BDSM. Ruby Johnson provides therapeutic support, care, and intervention with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender variant/non-binary, queer, and same gender loving communities. Currently, Ruby is in private practice at Vantage Point Counseling Services (www.vantagepointdallascounseling.com) and Inamorata LLC (www.inamorata.me). View Guest page

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Petra Joy

Petra Joy is an award-winning (erotic) filmmaker, photographer and journalist. Since getting her first camera at the age of six, Petra has been fascinated with the visual art forms. She gained an MA in film studies and history. Over two decades she worked as a director for German TV producing many documentaries on (female) sexuality. Since 2004 she has been producing explicit erotic films from a female perspective. Her films have won multiple awards. Petra has also made herself a name as a curator and distributer of feminist porn and a mentor to new female filmmakers. She hopes to make many more female fantasies a reality on film. www.petrajoy.com
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Deborah Kagan

Deborah Kagan helps women conquer self-doubt and indecision to step into their full power, love who they are and live a turned ON life. She is the creator of the Rock Your Mojo™ programs and the author of Find Your ME Spot: 52 Ways to Reclaim Your Confidence, Feel Good in Your Own Skin and Live a Turned On Life. She's super social and wants to connect with you. Find her on Facebook (/mojorecoveryspecialist), Instagram (@deborahkagan), Twitter (@deborahkagan), Pinterest (/deborahkagan) and LinkedIn (/in/deborahkagan). And for all things mojolicious, check out www.deborah-kagan.com
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Princess Kali

Princess Kali takes her kink seriously and has spent over fourteen years exploring not only the how but the why of alternative lifestyles. Her experience working as a professional dominatrix has given her a unique understanding of the motivations behind erotic humiliation play as well as a passion for helping people participate in it more safely and enjoyably.
As the founder of Erotication.com, she's a pioneer of the “kinktrepreneur” business model, creating sites such as Kink Academy, Passionate U, and Fearless Press for easy access to adult sex and BDSM education. Her work continues to inspire and support many other kink educators, writers, and enthusiasts.
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Eri Kardos

Eri Kardos is an International Coach, Speaker, and Best-Selling Author of Relationship Agreements: A Simple and Effective Guide for Strengthening Communication, Reducing Conflict, and Increasing Intimacy to Design Your Ideal Relationship. She specializes in empowering people to choose their own adventure in relationships, career, and life. Prior to studying in San Francisco and Copenhagen to earn her certification as an Integral Coach, Eri graduated from the world’s #1 international business school and provided leadership within the tech industry. Having provided game-changing relationship coaching to top leaders at companies including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, Eri now works with clients all over the world to help them fall more deeply in love with their partners, themselves, and their relationships. View Guest page

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Shanna Katz

Shanna Katz, M.Ed, ACS is a queer kinky disabled feisty femme board certified sexologist, sexuality educator and professional pervert with three books under her belt. From topics like vaginal fisting to non-monogamy, and oral sex to how sexuality and dis/ability intersect, she talks, writes and teaches about the huge spectrum of sexuality, both from personal and professional perspectives. She's using her Master's of Sexuality Education to provide accessible, open-source sex education to people around the country. She believes strong in social justice and that all people deserve to have interesting and accurate information about sexuality, especially those communities who are frequently left out of the sexual conversation.
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Lisa Kenney

Lisa Kenney is the Executive Director of Gender Spectrum and a recognized thought-leader on youth and gender. She’s a featured speaker at conferences and a consultant to organizations and corporations on the changing understanding of gender and the implications this has for parents and families, social institutions and corporations. She co-produced the film Creating Gender Inclusive Schools with Jonathan Skurnik and Joel Baum and co-authored The Transgender Teen: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Teens with Stephanie Brill.
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Nan Kinney

Nan Kinney is the president and co-founder of Fatale Media. She is also the executive producer of Fatale’s lesbian porn and adult educational videos and DVDs. With Deborah Sundahl, she co-founded On Our Backs magazine.
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Marty Klein

Dr. Marty Klein is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and Certified Sex Therapist. A former instructor at Stanford Medical School, he is the award-winning author of seven books and 8 sets of training CDs. His new book is Sexual Intelligence: What We Really Want From Sex, And How to Get It. Psychology Today magazine says "Read this book if you want to improve your sex life." Marty is regularly in the popular media, such as The New York Times, Newsweek, NPR, and Nightline. For 12 years he has written & published Sexual Intelligence, the blog and electronic newsletter. Marty is outspoken about many popular & clinical ideas about sex, decrying psychology’s gender stereotypes, sex-negativity, and what he calls the Oprah-ization of therapy; he is America’s best-known voice opposing the sex addiction movement. Marty has been an expert witness or plaintiff in many obscenity and censorship trials. He has trained professionals in 25 countries, such as China, India, Turkey, and Croatia. View Guest page

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Belle Knox

Originally from Washington State, Belle Knox the sweet and petite 18-year-old XXX starlet entered the world of adult entertainment four months ago. With her fresh, beautiful face and adorable figure, Knox dove into the industry appearing in Reality Kings, Porn Pros, Teen Fidelity/Kelly Madison, Nubiles, Naughty America and X-Art. She has starred in FuckedHard 18, Naughty Cheerleaders 4 and Adam and Eve’s Real College Girls. The 18-year-old Duke University student and adult starlet became national headline news after being outed by a fellow classmate and writing a piece inspired by the experience in popular online magazine www.xojane.com. Since then she has appeared on national shows such as The View, The Independents, Dr. Drew, Piers Morgan and The Howard Stern Show. She has been written about in The Huffington Post, The NY Post, The Daily News, The NY Times and Rolling Stone Magazine.
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N Maxwell Lander

N Maxwell Lander is a photographer, designer, and other-type-of-artist. He is an advocate of the Oxford Dictionary including “pig” as a classification of gender. He remembers being told his first word was “chocolate” and that his first steps were taken in order to get closer to certain parts of Dolly Parton on a TV screen. He aspires to someday grow a beard (for man contouring) and hopes to use his newly acquired deep voice to become the fat guy in the dance music video that inserts the singer’s name into the beginning. View Guest page

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Bianca Laureano

Bianca is an award-winning LatiNegra sexologist who has been in the US sexology field for over 15 years. Her background is in Black and Latino sexualities, education, media justice, and youth culture. She resides in New York City where she provides education, consultation, training, and skillshares on various topics in the sexuality field. Bianca earned a BA in Women’s Health & Latino Communities from the University of Maryland, a MA in Human Sexuality Education from NYU, and a MA in Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland. She is co-directing a feature-length documentary film titled BLACK PERVERT, about the intersections of Black and kink communities. She is a founding member of WOCSHN the Women of Color Sexual Health Network and founder of The LatiNegr@s Project and LatinoSexuality.com. Bianca is on the board of The Black Girl Project and CLAGS The Center for LGBT Studies at CUNY. To reach or hire Bianca visit her site BiancaLaureano.com.
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Lorelei Lee

Lorelei Lee has worked as a performer and director in the adult film industry since 1999. She has an MFA in Fiction from New York University and has taught writing at NYU, at the San Francisco Center for Sex and Culture, and in private workshops. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Transfer, $pread Magazine, Salon, The Rumpus, and Denver Quarterly, as well as in the anthologies Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys, Feminist Porn Studies, and Off the Set. Along with Stephen Elliot, she is the cowriter of the independent film About Cherry, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and will be in theaters in September, 2012. She has toured nationally with the Sex Workers’ Art Show, is an alumni of the RADAR Lab, and is a Literary Death Match Champion. She writes with playwright and performer Erin Markey for the blog I Deserve This, readable at guesswhatideservethis.wordpress.com. She is currently working on her first novel. View Guest page

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Emily Letts

Emily Letts currently lives in Chicago. Besides her work with NotAlone.US she is working on a dual masters in public health and social work at the University of Illinois at Chicago with a concentration in women's health. Her video has over four million views and won the Judge’s Choice award in the Abortion Care Network’s first Abortion Stigma Busting Video Competition.
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Dr. Logan Levkoff

Dr. Logan Levkoff is an internationally recognized expert on sexuality and relationships. As a thought leader in the field of human sexuality, Dr. Levkoff is a regular contributor to television shows and is also the host of CafeMom’s show, Mom Ed: In the Bedroom. Dr. Levkoff is the author of three books: Got Teens? The Doctor Moms’ Guide to Sexuality, Social Media, and Other Adolescent Realities, Third Base Ain't What it Used to Be: What Your Kids are Learning About Sex Today and How to Teach Them to Become Sexually Healthy Adults, and How to Get Your Wife to Have Sex with You, She is also a contributor to the anthology, Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades and ToughLove. Logan Levkoff is an AASECT certified sex educator and has served on the AASECT Board of Directors. She received her Ph.D. in Human Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Life Education from New York University and an M.S. in Human Sexuality Education and a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania.
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David J. Ley, Ph.D.

Dr. David Ley currently serves as Executive Director of a large community behavioral health agency in Albuquerque. Dr. Ley has been treating sexuality issues throughout his career. He first began treating perpetrators and victims of sexual abuse, but began to expand his approach to include the fostering and promotion of healthy sexuality, and awareness of the wide range of normative sexual behaviors. Insatiable Wives was his first book and won a Silver Medal in the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year contest for 2009. His second book, The Myth of Sex Addiction, triggered a firestorm of controversy nationwide, and has led to a growing movement against the pseudoscience and moralizing of the sex addiction industry. Ethical Porn for Dicks, A Man's Guide to Responsible Viewing Pleasure, is Dr. Ley's third book. It was written in an accessible, generally-available manner, to assist men in informing themselves about porn use, and is meant to combat the modern fear-based porn-panic.
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Dirty Lola

Lola is a storyteller, sex educator and the creator and host of the live sex Q&A / go-go show and podcast Sex Ed. A Go-Go. During the last six years, she has shared her distinctive brand of kickass body and sex-positivity and her personal journey into the kink and poly lifestyles on and off stage.
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Sinnamon Love

Sinnamon Love is a retired adult film star & fetish model. She works as a staff writer & relationship columnist for TheWellVersed.com, as well as a freelance, contributing writer for hip hop, parenting and feminist websites and academic books. In 2011, Sinnamon Love launched an internet radio show called Sex, Love & Hip Hop on DTFRadio.com. Love’s 17 year on camera career and educational background has made her an expert in the field related to pornography, sex work, human sexuality and other related subjects. Currently, Love lives in Brooklyn, New York raising a teenage daughter and Autistic teenage son. She has an adult daughter attending a university in Los Angeles, California. She is an outspoken Autism/ Asperger’s parent advocate and has recently taken on improving sex education in Inner City schools.
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Sassafras Lowrey

Sassafras Lowrey is an internationally award-winning storyteller,
author, artist and educator. Ze is the editor of the two time American
Library Association honored, and Lambda Literary Finalist Kicked Out
anthology. Roving Pack is hir debut novel. Learn more about Sassafras and
hir work at www.SassafrasLowrey.com
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Erika Lust

Erika Lust, born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1977, is an independent filmmaker, author, and founder of Erika Lust Films. After graduating from Lund University with a degree in Political Science with a focus on Feminism, Lust moved to Barcelona, where her production company was established in 2005. She has directed four award-winning erotic films - Five Hot Stories for Her, Barcelona Sex Project, Life Love Lust, and Cabaret Desire, as well as some shorts – and is currently working on her fifth. Her written works include Good
Porn: a Woman’s Guide, The Erotic Bible to Europe, Love Me Like You Hate Me and La Canción de Nora. Lust is committed to forging a new concept of sexual expression: pledging, in her own words, "to create new waves in adult cinema, to show all of the passion, intimacy, love and lust in sex: where the feminine viewpoint is vital, the aesthetic is a pleasure to all of the senses and those seeking an alternative to porn can find a home."
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Brittany Machado

Brittany Machado is an academic-turned-filmmaker. Trained as a sociologist at the University of Chicago, she has transferred her love of storytelling and eye for detail into making film and television. She has produced a number of independent projects, including the webseries When Giants Fan Met Dodgers Fan (CSN Bay Area), and the feature documentary Give Me Sex Jesus. Brittany cut her teeth working in post-production on Grimm (NBC) and consulting for independent documentary projects. She currently works at Warner Bros. where she is the administrator for the Television Workshop and other creative development programs.
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Thomas Maier

Thomas Maier is an award-winning author and investigative journalist for Newsday in New York. He has written four books, including "Masters of Sex", a biography of sex researchers Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, which has been made into a Golden Globe-nominated drama series starring actors Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan.
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Aida Manduley

Aida Manduley is an award-winning bilingual powerhouse trained as a social worker, sexuality educator, and nonprofit management professional. Hailing from Puerto Rico and with firm roots in LGBTQ activism, she regularly blogs about social justice issues and has presented across North America on a variety of sexuality topics and their intersections with issues such as digital literacy and anti-racism. Aida’s currently pursuing her Master’s of Social Work at Boston University—with a focus on aging populations—and holds a B.A. in Gender and Sexuality Studies from Brown University. Her primary affiliations are with the Women of Color Sexual Health Network, where she serves on the executive committee, and The Center for Sexual Pleasure & Health, where she has worked since 2010 and now acts as a consultant. Past projects include sexual health and LGBTQ work at a domestic violence agency, crisis-response with victims of assault, and leadership on a number of national and regional coalitions
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Ashley Manta

Ashley Manta is a professional sex educator, writer, coach, and facilitator, and a leading expert on the relationship between cannabis and sexuality. Ashley helps people navigate these sometimes taboo topics to make sure they are interacting, loving, and feeling their best in and out of the bedroom. She has spoken at events and taught workshops at venues across the country, and recently moderated a South by Southwest (SXSW) panel on the surprising health and sex benefits of cannabis. She is a regular contributor to Leafly.com and Dope Magazine.
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Shay Martin

Shay Martin from Vibratex : Vibratex is a 30 yr old family company run by Dan and Shay Martin. We are known for creating unique, fun, quality vibrators and toys. Our Rabbit Pearl was the one and only vibe featured on "Sex and the City" which spawned a whole industry of vibrators. The ergonomics and quality of our materials are of the upmost importance to us and have always set us apart from other products on the market. Our dual backgrounds in engineering and biology have allowed us to steer clear of poor designs and inferior materials. Relationships with our manufacturers in Japan have also allowed us to develop a lasting relationship with the Hitachi corporation. Vibratex is the sole import agent for Hitachi to bring in the Magic Wand. We work closely with them to bring in the most reliable, most loved electric vibrator available in the world market.
We are small but very dedicated company that has always designed our own and never copied trends or designs. And we have fun making people happy.
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Dr. Morgana Maye

Dr. Morgana Maye is a San Francisco-based professional dominant, counselor, and human sexuality consultant. She teaches people how to fully express their kinky desires without shame, and empowers them with the language and skills necessary to negotiate loving and lasting kink-positive relationships. Dr. Maye is the owner Maison de la Maitresse, San Francisco’s premiere boutique dungeon. She has both Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Clinical Psychology, with a post-doctoral specialty in forensics and working with sexual behavior problems. Her writing has appeared in Best American Erotica, Politically Inspired, and Sex for America, and she is the writer and host of the instructional video Whipsmart: A Good Vibrations Guide to Beginning S/M.
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Maggie Mayhem

When Maggie Mayhem started volunteering as an HIV test counselor at UC Santa Cruz in 2003, she had no idea how radically it would change the direction of her entire life. Before long, she became a vocal activist for harm reduction and sex positivity. She has served as the coordinator of the UC Santa Cruz Anonymous HIV testing program, HIV Senior Specialist of Larkin Street Youth Services, and grant recipient for HIV prevention and care work in Bagamoyo, Tanzania. Maggie Mayhem is also a writer, speaker, and performance artist as well as a queer porn performer who has appeared in movies from Madison Bound and Girlfriends Films and on Kink.Com, Crashpad Series, QueerPorn.TV, and on the website she built with her partner Ned, MeetTheMayhems.Com. View Guest page

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Ned Mayhem

Ned Mayhem is a physics graduate student who has been a performer in straight, gay, and queer pornography since 2010. He has appeared in films that have been recognized at Cinekink, AVN, and the Feminist Porn Awards. With his partner Maggie Mayhem, Ned runs the independent DIY porn site MeetTheMayhems.com showcasing the couple's own brand of perversely heartwarming queer sexuality. Ned also uses the software he has developed for MeetTheMayhems to empower other adult performers and independent studios to control their own web presence and monetize their own content. In addition to MeetTheMayhems.com, Ned’s software runs such sites as Femifist.com, QueerlySF.com, and KittyStryker.com. Ned loves to share his pornographics enthusiasm with crowds, and he's spoken at MomentumCon 2012, Sex Week at Harvard, Arse Elektronika, Hackmeet, Nerd Nite SF, and OpenSF.
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Cris Mazza

Cris Mazza’s newest title is a real-time memoir titled Something Wrong With Her chronicling the 25-year journey to reunite with a boy from her past. She is currently co-producer, writer, and lead actress for a feature film that will be a fictional sequel to that memoir, a groundbreaking blend of memoir, documentary and fiction. Mazza has sixteen other titles including her first novel, How to Leave a Country, which won the PEN/Nelson Algren Award for book-length fiction. Currently living 50 miles west of Chicago, she is a professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Kate McCombs

Kate McCombs is an empathy educator based in Melbourne, Australia. Her workshops, talks, and writing seek to improve emotional literacy, whether in a professional or personal context. Kate’s Tea & Empathy workshop uses a unique set of cards she developed, and has helped doctors, students, activists, and many others to better understand and talk about feelings in a practical and non-confrontational way. Kate holds a Master’s in Public Health, and is a sought-after expert on sex and relationships.
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Elizabeth McGrath

Elizabeth McGrath is a published author, sex therapist and sexuality educator working in the Bay Area. She works with individuals and couples, guiding them as they learn to value their own pleasure and overcome obstacles, to satisfying sexual expression resulting in exhilarating sex lives and fulfilling relationships with themselves and others. For over a decade she has worked, educated and counseled in sexuality and sex education. She is a sexual lifestyle expert and highly experienced in issues of gender, kink, sexual embodiment, sexual orientation and sexual empowerment through self-acceptance. View Guest page

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Sunny Megatron

Sunny Megatron is a sexuality educator, award-winning blogger, media personality, and pleasure products expert. She’s also the host and executive producer of the groundbreaking, sex-positive Showtime original television series, SEX with Sunny Megatron. Named one of the 6 most savvy sexologists in North America, her work has been featured in Cosmo, Playboy, Jezebel, Buzzfeed, and CNN. Sunny’s passion is helping people become their authentic, sexual selves by learning to overcome shame and shed inhibitions. As a lifestyle BDSM enthusiast, much of her work centers around normalizing alternative sexual practices and ending sexual stigma.
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Ken Melvoin-Berg

Ken Melvoin-Berg is a Chicago based TV/Movie producer, writer, and BDSM/sex educator. He is also the content creator and consulting producer of Showtime’s “Sex with Sunny Megatron.” Ken is an “edutainer” armed with knowledge of all things sexual, a humorous lecturing style, and a professional background in medicine/biology. Ken has been writing and lecturing on these subjects since 1997. Ken is known for his amazing facial hair and tattoos.
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Mark A. Michaels

Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson, a devoted married couple, have been teaching Tantra together since 1999. They are the authors of the award winning books, The Essence of Tantric Sexuality (Llewellyn, 2006), Tantra for Erotic Empowerment (Llewellyn 2008), and Great Sex Made Simple, which will be published in December 2012
(Llewellyn.) Their meditation CD set, Ananda Nidra: Blissful Sleep (Projekt Records) was a finalist for a 2012 COVR Visionary Award.
Michaels and Johnson wrote and appeared in two instructional DVDs produced by the Alexander Institute: Tantric Sexual Massage for Lovers and Advanced Tantric Sex Secrets. They are senior students of Tantric pioneer Dr. Jonn Mumford (Swami Anandakapila Saraswati) who has named them his lineage holders for the Americas and Europe. In addition, the two are co-founders of the Pleasure Salon, a monthly gathering in New York City that brings together sex-positive people and pleasure activists from a variety of communities.
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Midori

Sexuality educator, author and artist, Midori's made an improbable career out of being the traveling coach on creative and sensual living. Dubbed "the super nova of kink" by Dan Savage, she's known for her hilarious and practical classes on enhancing sexual fulfillment, boosting confidence and expanding personal growth. A native of Tokyo, she brings a unique perspective pleasure and authentic living. She wrote the first English book on Shibari "Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage", then "Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink", and twisted science fiction "Master Han's Daughter". In 2001 she founded Rope Bondage Dojo, trained cadres & lead Dojos each year. She created ForteFemme a women's dominance training and empowerment intensive. With Laura Antoniou she teaches Passionate Bonds on effective & meaningful D/s protocol. She creates provocative art internationally. She's been long active in HIV activism through AIDS LifeCycle. View Guest page

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Reid Mihalko

Sex and relationship expert Reid Mihalko of ReidAboutSex.com helps adults learn how to understand their lovers' bodies and be better communicators so they can create more self-esteem, self-confidence and greater health in their relationships and sex lives, no matter what their self-expression of those happen to be. From his rated-PG/PG-13 workshops (Cuddle Party, Speed-Flirting) to the rated-R (Iron Slut Sex Educator Showdown) to his explicit, NC-17 rated, Show-N-Tell sex education workshops (where audiences get to watch, take notes, and ask questions), Reid's workshops have been attended by close to 40,000 individuals from myriad walks of life, orientations, relationship styles, countries and religions. Reid has been a featured speaker at dozens of conferences on relationships and sexuality and is a sought-after presenter and teacher at colleges and sex positive stores across the country. Reid has been a writer and producer on a number of films and television projects about sex and relationships, and appears regularly in the media, including across the globe in thirteen countries and at least seven languages. View Guest page

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Mireille Miller-Young, Ph.D.

Mireille Miller-Young, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She researches and teaches about race, gender, and sexuality in popular culture and the sex industries. Her forthcoming manuscript, A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women, Sex Work, and Pornography (Duke University Press) examines African American women’s sex work in the porn industry. View Guest page

Eve Minax

Dubbed by her peers as the “Approahcable Pervert”, Domina, Kink Educator and Author Eve Minax delights in proliferating carnal knowledge. She relishes training folk desirous of gaining deeper insight into erotic domination and submission - which is not limited to physical skills. Minax developed her skills in BDSM in France, Australia, and the U.S. and currently resides and practices her art in San Francisco. She has honed her pedagogical skills at a plethora of conferences over the years, and was the coordinator for CineKink:Chicago and the LA&M Road show. She has been acting as Lead Staff Instructor for the Cleo Dubois Academy of SM Arts since 2002 and also sits on the board of CARAS (https://carasresearch.org/) and TASHRA(http://www.tashra.org/). A certified Urban Tantrika and Bondassage Practitioner and trainer, Minax values the depth of the work. She has self-produced over 100 videos and also shoots for well known bondage sites like bondageland.com and seriousbondage.com. View Guest page

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Cunning Minx

Cunning Minx is the sultry-voiced producer and host of the Polyamory Weekly podcast, now with over 300 episodes in production. The podcast shares tales from the front of responsible non-monogamy from a pansexual, kink-friendly point of view. A kinky boobiesexual, Minx founded the show as a resource for the poly and poly-curious to form a community, share experiences and help guide each other on their journeys of poly and kinky exploration. Minx has been a submissive, bottom and otherwise generally non-dominant type for the past ten years. Minx has spoken on poly, kinky and Web 2.0 community-building topics at ShibariCon, Geek Girl Con, CatalystCon, MomentumCon, Atlanta Poly Weekend, Sex 2.0, Leather Leadership Conference, Dragon*Con, GD2, Heartland Polyamory Conference, New York Poly Pride and Poly Living. The Poly Weekly podcast is the winner of the 2007 Erotic Award for Best Podcast and has received accolades from ErosZine, Fleshbot and the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Janet Mock

Janet Mock is a writer who founded the #Girlslikeus project, a media visibility campaign for trans women. Her memoir "Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More" was published in February 2014. Since sharing her story in 2011 through Marie Claire magazine, Janet has been featured in the HBO documentary The Out List and appears regularly on MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry show. She currently serves on the board of directors for the Arcus Foundation and has been recognized by the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, the Center for American Progress, the Women's Media Center and GOOD magazine for her work. A native of Honolulu, Janet lives and writes in New York City with her boyfriend Aaron and their cockapoo Cleo. Follow her on Twitter at @janetmock.
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Erika Moen

Erika Moen is a 16 years comics veteran and full-time cartoonist at Periscope Studio in Portland, OR. Together with her husband, Matthew Nolan, they create a new Oh Joy Sex Toy comic every Tuesday. Her work has a strong focus on sex, sexuality, gender, sex education, and sex positivity-- plus a healthy dose of dick jokes and terrible puns. View Guest page

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Andrew Morrison-Gurza

Andrew Morrison-Gurza is the Founder/Co-Director of Deliciously Disabled Consulting. His passion is “making disability accessible" within mainstream pop culture. Within the LGBTQ+ community, Andrew works to deconstruct our homo-normative, body beautiful ideals and show that Queers with Disabilities deserve representation. His goal is to welcome everyone into the conversation of disability. His written work has been highlighted in The Advocate, Huffington Post and The Good Men Project, where he candidly discusses the realities of sex and disability as a Queer Cripple.
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Dr. Emily Morse

Dr. Emily Morse is a sex expert and host of the top downloaded sex and relationship advice podcast Sex with Emily. She has helped millions of people have the sex and relationships they want but could not figure out how to get. Emily has been voted the #1 dating and sex expert by DatingAdvice.com and the #1 dating and sex expert to follow on Twitter. Emily launched the Sex with Emily radio show and podcast in 2005 before becoming a Bravo television personality on Miss Advised. She is dedicated to educating men and women about Kegel Exercises (check out her iPhone App: Kegel Camp) and is the author of the popular book, Hot Sex: Over 200 Things You Can Try Tonight. She is a weekly guest co-host on the nationally syndicated radio show Loveline with Dr. Drew Pinsky. Emily earned her Doctor of Human Sexuality from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco and received her BA in Psychology from University of Michigan. Prior to becoming a sex expert, Emily worked in politics as a campaign aide for California Senator Barbara Boxer and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. She also directed and produced the award-winning documentary, See How They Run, which follows a notorious San Francisco mayoral race.
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Sarah Mueller

Sarah Mueller has been a Sex Educator at The Smitten Kitten since May of 2012. Prior to her employment at The Smitten Kitten Sarah received a BA in English Literature, with minors in Art History and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Macalester College. Sarah has begun to give workshops and trainings through The Smitten Kitten, providing educational materials around lubricant safety at conferences across the U.S. She is now expanding her research and educational offerings to topics from STIs,Cancer Treatment & Sexual Function, Menopause, and Social Justice within Gynecology. Her research has also allowed her to contribute to Allison Moon’s Girl
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Dr. Ruth Neustifter

Dr. Ruth Neustifter is an author, university faculty member, and sexuality researcher that joins us from snowy Ontario, Canada. They are also proud to co-chair one of the largest and longest running annual professional sexuality conferences in Canada, The Guelph Sexuality Conference. Since the late 1990s Ruthie has specialized in sexual well-being and pleasure, as well as the resilience of survivors of intimate violence.

They are the author of The Nice Girl’s Guide To Talking Dirty and an upcoming book on trauma survivors through Routledge, as well as numerous academic publications and presentations. They have given workshops throughout North American as well as in Mexico and Europe in venues ranging from homeless shelters to universities to resorts.

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Nica Noelle

Nica Noelle is one of the most prolific writer/directors working in adult films today. She has been credited with innovating a new approach to capturing sex on film and influencing a generation of adult filmmakers and performers. Ms. Noelle has created six successful studios in the last five years, and is currently working on her seventh with her business partner Executive Producer Jerry Anders of AEBN.net View Guest page

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JoEllen Notte

JoEllen Notte is a writer, speaker, researcher and mental health advocate who has spent the last 3 years exploring the impact of depression on sex and relationships. Since 2012 she has written about sex, mental health, and how none of us are broken on her award-winning site The Redhead Bedhead. JoEllen has led workshops on sexual communication, navigating consent, having casual sex kindly, and dating as an introvert. She has toured sex shops, spoken at length on dildos, and even started a sex school but is happiest speaking on behalf of quiet people who have sex. Check out her video series on attending conferences as an introvert and extensive writing on sex and depression. JoEllen has spoken at Clark College, University of Chicago, Woodhull's Sexual Freedom Summit, and the Playground Conference.
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Marit Östberg

Marit Östberg is from Stockholm, Sweden, currently living in
Berlin. Since making her debut as a porn-film director in the acclaimed porn
compilation Dirty Diaries, Marit Östberg has continued to produce porn. She
has become a part of the queer feminist porn scene that has evolved in
Europe in recent years, directing and acting in work that pushes ideas of
who and what porn might be for. Her films have been shown and discussed at
various festivals around the world.
Östberg has a background as queer feminist activist and journalist, and
she´s been an important voice discussing and writing about sexual politics
in swedish media the last decade. She sees porn as a creative way of working
with sexual politics, wanting to expand the possibilities of being in the
world. She says: “When queers and women take their sexuality into their own
hands patriarchy is lost.”
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Robert Page

The Producer of The Lovers' Guide Series, Robert Page, is an award-winning producer, director and writer who has spent over 25 years working mostly in the field of adult education. He began creating the series on video in 1991 in the UK, where the original film sold over a million copies in its first year and was the first non-fiction film to top the Uk video charts. He has since supervised its growth into one of the world's most authoritative sex series. And created the world’s first adult 3D theatrical feature: “The Lovers’ Guide 3D”. The material has been released as several books, magazines, and is the basis of the biggest dedicated website on the internet. Mr. Page is editor of "The Lovers' Guide Laid Bare" and co-editor of "The Lovers' Guide Illustrated Encyclopedia". He is a respected member of AASECT; WAS and SSSS. He has written, lectured and broadcast extensively. He has two sons and lives in New York.
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Stella Palikarova

Stella Palikarova is a writer/filmmaker and co-director of Deliciously Disabled. She is currently completing her Masters of Information at the University of Toronto, with a background in Film and Psychology from York University (2007), having graduated summa cum laude. Her academic interests have always related to the intersecting experiences of disability, from her undergraduate thesis on the dating experiences of adolescent girls with congenital, physical disabilities, to her current thesis work on the ethical implications of cybernetic implants for people with disabilities. For the latter, Stella received a Masters SSHRC. Stella is a frequent guest speaker on subjects pertaining to disability and continues to pursue filmmaking and creative writing.
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Ben Pattee

Ben Pattee has been enjoying enemas for over 60 years. Since 1974, he has worked in the Freshpack Industries on automated equipment, systems and complete lines and plants. With this knowledge of electrical engineering, control systems and industrial robotic systems he has developed many enema and enema related items. Some of these include an Enema Fuck Machine, Automated and Manual enema/colonic systems and many silicone related items. Ben is the Founder of two companies: Pure Ecstasy for product development and sales and the Enema Research Institute for the testing of enema solutions, enema procedures and enema equipment which are helping to change the industry. He is the author of The Bottom Line, Adventures in Erotic Enema Play: Book 1 The Basics, and teaches classes on enemas, most recently at the Handball Academy.
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MacKenzie Peck

MacKenzie grew up in Connecticut and attended the Maryland Institute College of Art. After graduation, MacKenzie had a job at the prestigious Grimaldis Gallery and an artist residency at The Creative Alliance at Patterson Park. Yet after a successful Kickstarter campaign and large-scale exhibition, MacKenzie felt unfulfilled, drained, and disconnected. And so, she began thinking about creative, socially impactful, entrepreneurial work that could reach a larger audience. Her path took an unusual course from Baltimore to Tennessee, Germany, South Carolina, and Connecticut before landing in Brooklyn in 2015. And so, MacKenzie’s relationship with New York City has evolved in tandem with her burgeoning business. These days, she spends most of her time at the Bat Haus co-working space, the official Math Magazine Headquarters.
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Constance Penley

Constance Penley is Professor of Film and Media Studies and Co-Director of the
Carsey-Wolf Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her
Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and studied at the Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Her major areas of research interest are film history and
theory, feminist theory, cultural studies, contemporary art, and science and technology
studies. She is a founding editor of Camera Obscura: Feminism, Media, Cultural
Studies and editor or co-editor of the influential collections Feminism and Film Theory,
Male Trouble, Technoculture, The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Science and
Gender, and The Feminist Porn Book. Her books include The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis, NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America, and the forthcoming Teaching Pornography. Her collaborative art projects include MELROSE SPACE: Primetime Art by the GALA Committee and Biospheria: An Environmental Opera. Penley is a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Award and the Kenneth Burke Society Prize for Excellence in Rhetorical Studies.
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Sandra Pertot

Sandra Pertot is currently in private practice as a clinical psychologist and sex therapist. For more than thirty five years she has specialised in the field of human sexuality. The presenting problems include low libido, mismatched libidos, erectile dysfunction, anorgasmia, rapid ejaculation, delayed ejaculation, vaginismus; sexual assault victims (male and female); sexual identity issues; impulsive/compulsive sexual behaviours; and non-sexual presentations in the general area of mental health, such as anxiety disorders, depression and so on. In addition, she presents one, two and three day workshops for health professionals on the assessment and management of sexual problems.
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA is a queer disabled femme writer and performer of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent. The author of the poetry collection Bodymap the Lambda Award-winning poetry book Love Cake and Consensual Genocide, and co-editor of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities, her writing has been widely anthologized. She is the co-founder of Mangos With Chili, North America’s touring queer and trans people of colour cabaret, and is a lead artist with the disability justice incubator Sins Invalid.
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Derrick Pierce

Derrick Pierce is an adult performer, martial arts expert, and a self-described “Crossfit junkie.” He’s appeared in over 100 adult feature films, including Iron Man XXX, Upload, Tristan Taormino’s Guide to Kinky Sex for Couples, and Tuff Love, which he directed for Wicked Pictures. He’s received numerous award nominations, and he won the 2010 AVN Award for Unsung Male Performer of the Year. Follow him on Twitter @DPiercexxx and check out the fan site derrickpiercexxxstar.com.
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Claire Bond Potter

Claire Bond Potter has been Professor of History at The New School for Public Engagement since 2012. Prior to that I worked at Wesleyan University. I am currently writing a political history of anti-pornography campaigns, Sex in Public: Feminism, the Reagan Revolution and the Politics of Pornography, 1968-2000 (due to be completed in 2014.) I received my BA in English Literature from Yale University and my Ph.D. in History from New York University. I am the author of War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men and the Politics of Mass Culture (Rutgers University Press, 1998) and an editor, with Renee Romano, of Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back (University of Georgia Press, 2012). Since 2007 I have blogged at Tenured Radical, which moved to The Chronicle of Higher Education in July 2011.
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Adam Powers

Adam is a 31-year old California native who’s lived in San Diego for the better part of a decade, and would move to Berlin or Vancouver but for having all the community she could ever hope for right here. She’s identified as queer, polyamorous, and transgender for just about two years, marking a sudden shift from being mostly-cis, mostly-straight, mostly-monogamous, and mostly-male. She both attended and currently works at UC San Diego, where she studied design and cognitive science, and has spent a good part of her professional life trying to reconcile her deep and abiding loves of both people and technology. She organizes two poly meetup groups, one discussion-based and the other a social mixer, both fully inclusive of all genders, sexualities, and relationship styles. You can find out more about the San Diego polyamory scene at sdpoly.org. She posts primarily on Medium under @adampowers, or on her website at powe.rs.
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Jon Pressick

Jon Pressick is the sex community's gadabout. He is the editor of Cleis Press' Best Sex Writing of the Year, co-host and producer of Toronto radio institution Sex City and the blogger behind Sex in Words. He is also a freelance editor and writer and co-columnist of "Sex Stories We Love" on Kinkly. View Guest page

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Joan Price

Ageless sexuality advocate Joan Price (joanprice.com) is the author of "Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud about Senior Sex" and "Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex After Sixty". Naked at Our Age won Outstanding Self-Help Book 2012 from the American Society of Journalists and Authors and Best Book 2012 from the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists, and the audiobook was nominated for an Audie in 2013. She recently edited a steamy senior sex anthology titled Ageless Erotica. Visit her zesty, award-winning blog about sex and aging at NakedAtOurAge.com, where Joan continues to talk out loud about Boomer/senior sex, partnered or solo.
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Carol Queen

Carol Queen has a PhD in sexology and a prior degree in sociology. She calls herself a cultural sexologist; while she addresses individual and couple's sexual concerns, her overarching interest is in cultural issues. Queen has worked at Good Vibrations, the woman-founded sexuality company based in San Francisco since 1990. Her current position is Staff Sexologist and Company Historian; her roles include representing the company to the press and the public; overseeing educational programming for staff and others; scripting/hosting a line of sex education videos, the Pleasure-Ed series, for sister company Good Releasing; and curating GV’s Antique Vibrator Museum. She is also the founding director of the Center for Sex & Culture, a non-profit sex ed/arts center San Francisco and is a frequent lecturer at colleges, conferences, and community-based organizations. Her dozen books include a Lambda Literary Award winner, PoMoSexuals, and Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture, which are used as texts in some college classes. She blogs at the Good Vibes Magazine and is a sometime contributor to the Boston Dig.
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Emily Quinn

Emily Quinn is a 25-year-old intersex woman, artist, animator, and Youth Leadership Coordinator for Inter/Act. She received her BFA in Animation and has spent the last few years working on Cartoon Network’s Emmy Award-winning Adventure Time. She attended her first AIS-DSD Support Group meeting in 2013. Later that year Emily became an AIC intern, helped organize the first-ever intersex youth retreat, and was named MTV’s Faking It Coordinator. Emily was one of the key contacts in developing Lauren’s character and publicly came out as intersex at the premiere of Faking It’s second season. She has since been featured in diverse media including The Huffington Post, Vice, and BuzzFeed. She left Cartoon Network in March, 2015 to take her position as AIC’s Youth Leadership Coordinator. She hopes to become a voice for intersex youth everywhere and will be pursing her Master’s in Community Leadership in the fall of 2015.
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Dalychia & Rafaella of Afrosexology

Afrosexology provides comprehensive pleasure based education centered around the narratives and liberation of Black people. We curate community discussions, educational materials, and sex positive events that cover topics such as: masturbation, self love, enhancing communication in relationships, radical twerking, oral sex, body agency, and much much more! We work with diverse groups including sexuality professionals, community organizations, individuals, parents, youth, spiritual communities, universities, and anyone else who wants to live a sex positive life. Our mission is to educate, explore, and reclaim Black sexuality by promoting Black self empowerment through sexual liberation. We just celebrated our first birthday and are proud to have worked with over 600 individuals. Afrosexology has created spaces where people feel free to express everything from shame to sexual desires, challenge stereotypes around sexual agency, and build an affirming community around shared experiences.
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Francisco Ramirez

Francisco Ramirez holds a Master of Public Health (concentration in
sexuality) from Columbia University. For 15 years, Francisco has addressed the sexual health needs of diverse communities worldwide. He is a long-term consultant at the United Nations and has led multi-lingual education initiatives for: the UN, MTV Networks, Planned Parenthood, New York Academy of Medicine, and the NAACP. Since 2008 Francisco has offered Free Advice on sex to passersby in NYC parks. He is a prominent voice in the media on sex. At MTV Voices and MTV Staying Alive, he is an on-camera host and producer of sex-related content. In 2010 he guest-hosted the Savage LoveCast with Dan Savage.
Currently, he is developing an original TV series and co-hosting a forthcoming web series on sex. Francisco lectures at universities and is creating a mobile app focused on sex ed.
Francisco has worked in over 10 countries and is based in NYC.
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Audacia Ray

Audacia Ray is a former sex worker and current media maker (and shaker). She has blogged about sexuality, culture, and politics since 2004 - including stints blogging for Fleshbot and the Village Voice - and spent three years as an executive editor at the Utne Reader award-winning $pread magazine. She is the author of Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads, and Cashing In on Internet Sexploration and won a Feminist Porn Award for her film The Bi Apple. These days, Audacia is the director of the Red Umbrella Project, which amplifies the voices of people in the sex trade through live storytelling events, media training, and advocacy workshops. Her monthly storytelling series the Red Umbrella Diaries and her blog Waking Vixen were named to the Village Voice’s Best of 2010 list. View Guest page

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Jen Richards

Jen Richards is a writer & actress, as well as a consultant & advocate who works with national organizations and media projects. She is the co-writer/star/producer of the Emmy nominated series Her Story; co-producer of the upcoming docu-series More Than T and writer of its accompanying Trans 102 series; a 2016 Outfest Screenwriting Fellow for her feature script Any Given Week; and will be appearing in several upcoming projects, including CMT’s Nashville and CBS’s Doubt. Jen was a series regular on E!’s I Am Cait, featured in Logo’s Beautiful As I Want To Be and AOL’s True Trans with Laura Jane Grace, and has appeared in several videos for BuzzFeed, OWN, and After Ellen. She has published essays on multiple platforms, and wrote the 2015 Sep/Oct cover story “What Trans Movement?” for The Advocate.
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Eve Rickert

Eve Rickert is a writer, editor and mastermind, and the co-author of the the new book More Than Two. Until taking time off from life to write the book and go on a book tour, she co-organized a group for poly women in Vancouver, Canada, and she blogs at the More Than Two website. She owns a science communications firm in Vancouver, Canada, called Talk Science to Me, and she is the co-founder of the publishing company Thorntree Press and the smart sex toy R&D company Tacit Pleasures.

Eve has been living poly since 2008, though her poly roots go back much deeper. Her approach to poly has changed radically over the years: from early experiences in high school, to first hearing the word “polyamory” in 1998, to first swingers’ party in 2006, to her current three long-term relationships. She's made a lot of mistakes and learned a lot of hard lessons. She co-wrote More Than Two to share those experiences with anyone who is struggling to maintain ethical multiple relationships with integrity, compassion and courage.
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Ignacio Rivera

Ignacio Rivera is a Queer, Trans, Two-Spirit, Black-Boricua Taíno who prefers the gender-neutral pronoun “they.” Ignacio has spoken nationally and internationally on racism, sexism, LGBTQ issues, anti-oppression, anti-violence, sexual liberation, multi-issue organizing and more. Ignacio’s work has manifested itself through skits, one-person shows, poetry, lectures, workshops, and experimental film. Ignacio is the founder of Poly Patao Productions, sporadically blogs on WhatTheySaidBlog.com, is one of the founding board members of Queers for Economic Justice as well as one of the 2016 Just Beginnings Collaborative Fellows. Just Beginnings Collaborative (JBC) is a movement building platform designed to initiate, cultivate, and fund strategic efforts to end child sexual abuse. View Guest page

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Ignacio Rivera

Ignacio Rivera aka Papí Coxxx identifies as a Queer, Trans, Two-Spirit, polyamorous, kinky, Black-Boricua. Ignacio, who prefers the gender-neutral pronoun “they,” is a lecturer, activist, filmmaker, sex educator, sex worker, and performance artist, sharing spoken word, one-person shows, and storytelling internationally. Their work has appeared in ColorLines, Ebony, Yellow Medicine Review, The Ultimate Guide to Kink and in their chapbooks, Las Alas, co-authored by Maceo Cabrera Estévez; Ingridients; and Thoughts, Rants and What Some Might Call Poetry. Ignacio is the recipient of a Marsha A. Gómez Cultural Heritage Award from LLEGÓ: The National Latina/o Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Organization. Ignacio is one of the founding board members of Queers for Economic Justice; they are also the founder of Poly Patao Productions. Ignacio has been facilitating workshops, doing lectures and creating events for kinky, kinky-curious Queer/Trans POCs and their white queer and trans allies for over a decade.
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JP Robichaud

JP Robichaud has been working and playing with control for the past ten years, both in his personal life and practice and also as the head rigger for The Keyhole Sessions, Toronto's foremost erotic life drawing and photography experience. JP was the resident stage manager for Les Coquettes Cabaret Burlesque and recently took on stage management duties for the Toronto Burlesque Festival. He has organized sexuality workshops around Toronto, working with such educators as Mollena Williams, Madison Young, Graydancer, Midori, and Tristan Taormino, and is the co-programmer & producer of Playground, Toronto's fastest growing sexuality conference. He co-presented a workshop on Consent at the 2015 Guelph Sexuality Conference, has been a featured performer for Madison Young's Femina Potens gallery in both San Francisco and New York City, and was the technical director of the 2013 and 2014 Good For Her Feminist Porn Awards. He can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @controlenthused
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Thomas S. Roche

Thomas S. Roche has been writing professionally since the 1980s. He's written more than 400 published short stories in many genres, including science fiction, fantasy, horror and crime-noir, but is best known for his work in short erotic fiction. His most recent book is The Panama Laugh, a paramilitary science fiction zombie apocalypse about viral media, for which he was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association. Roche served as the Marketing Manager at Good Vibrations, and has worked for Alt.com, The Eros Guide and Eros Zine, TinyNibbles.com, Gothic.net, GettingIt.com. Now, he's publisher and editor in chief of the e-book erotica publisher Deception Press. He recently celebrated the twentieth year of with the nonprofit San Francisco Sex Information, for which he is currently an instructor on the organization's Training Staff that trains new volunteers and other community health professionals, advocates and activists.
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Emilie Rosen

Emilie Rosen from Fun Factory
Who would have thought that in the mid-1990s two students from Bremen would make the important topic of female passion respectable? Dirk Bauer and Michael Pahl were fresh out of university when they founded their company FUN FACTORY in 1996. Their business idea? They wanted to produce aesthetic and trendy erotic toys that really speak to women and build a name for quality and class. “In a conversation with the founders of the erotic shop ‘For Ladies’ in Bremen, we learned that there was practically nothing of the kind,” Bauer said. “We recognized a gap in the market and made the decision to do something. Our products should unite aesthetics, quality and functionality. They should be fun and no one should be ashamed of them.” In the beginning, Bauer and Pahl sat at the kitchen table and made the form for the first FUN FACTORY dildo, “Paddy Pinguin” from clay. All dildos were first created as unique pieces, but as fans grew in number, so did requests continually climb and climb. Fifteen years later the two-man team at the kitchen table company has grown to Europe’s largest manufacturer of silicone erotic toys – with countless employees and customers from around the world.
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Sarah A.O. Rosner

Sarah A.O. Rosner is a choreographer, pornographer, and arts businessman making work out of Brooklyn, NY. She is the founder of a handful of companies and collectives, most notably the A.O. Movement Collective (an experimental performance company,) queer/feminist porn production company AORTA films, and arts business collective A.O. PRO(+ductions). Rosner's last three years have been dedicated to bringing the ETLE Universe, a queer/feminist cyborg time travel epic...thing...into being. Uniting 60+ collaborators from a wide range of disciplines to produce 10 unique works over the course of three years, the ETLE Universe creates a wholly original network of science fictions, culminating in a three-week festival September 25th - October 10th in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. When not creating new universes, Rosner pioneers radical business, champions sustainability, and loves to yell about art. More at www.ETLE.info. #theAOMC / #ETLEuniverse / #theOHfiles
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Carlin Ross

Carlin Ross, entrepreneur and sex educator, has transcended her “ESQ” tagline to position herself at the forefront of female sexuality. She left her law career to create a lifestyle brand for women: cherrybomb. The site launch was featured on the front page of the NY Times on February 24, 2004. She has interviewed sexperts such as Ian Kerner, Helen Fischer, Candida Royalle, Dr. Judy Kuriansky, and Dr. Barbara Bartlik for the Sex Herald. And she has written/produced/directed several erotic features for Playgirl TV in addition to several original features - most recently Betty Dodson's Bodysex Workshop. She has appeared on The Sharon Osbourne Show, CNN, MSNBC, and Dateline and radio shows including Afternoon Advice on Playboy Radio. She has been featured in national publications including Marie Claire and Esquire. View Guest page

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Candida Royalle

Candida Royalle, president of Femme Productions®, is a frequent
TV & radio guest and sought after expert on issues of relationships,
sexuality and women’s self-empowerment. She is the author of “How to Tell a
Naked Man What to Do: Sex Advice From a Woman who Knows”
(Simon&Schuster). Royalle first became known for pioneering the genre of
erotic movies by and for women and couples. Widely used by counselors and
sexologists, her work has received international accolades for its
sex-positive and egalitarian approach to sexuality and eroticism. Royalle
has lectured at such venues as the Smithsonian Institute, the American
Psychiatric Association's national conference, and the World Congress on
Sexology, as well as numerous universities including Princeton, Columbia,
Wellesley College and New York University. Royalle is a member of the
American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT)
and a founding board member of Feminist for Free Expression (FFE).
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Christopher Ryan

Christopher Ryan received a BA in Literature in 1984 and an MA and Ph.D. in psychology twenty years later. He spent the intervening decades traveling around the world, working at very odd jobs (e.g., gutting salmon in Alaska, teaching English to prostitutes in Bangkok and self-defense to land-reform activists in Mexico, managing commercial real-estate in New York’s Diamond District, helping Spanish physicians publish their research, Ebonics to English translation for a Spanish film festival...). Along the way, he decided to pursue doctoral studies in psychology, where his research focused on trying to distinguish the human from the cultural. His doctoral dissertation analyzes the prehistoric roots of human sexuality. Christopher has lectured at the University of Barcelona Medical School, consulted at various hospitals, been featured in both national and international media, from the New York Times to the Sydney Morning Herald. He’ll be giving a TED presentation on March 1st.
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Dylan Ryan

Dylan Ryan. After working at the Lusty Lady and Good Vibrations in San Francisco, Dylan Ryan started her porn career in 2003 with Shine Lousie Houston's The Crash Pad. Since then, this porn superhero has starred in over 45 films, including Tristan Taormino's Expert Guide to Pegging, Expert Guide to Female Orgasms, and Rough Sex 2. She's collaborated with Courtney Trouble and was voted Heartthrob of the Year in 2009 at the Feminist Porn Awards.
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Ingrid Ryberg

Ingrid Ryberg is defending her doctoral dissertation, Imagining
Safe Space: The Politics and Ethics of Queer, Feminist and Lesbian
Pornography, in February 2012 at the Department of Cinema Studies, Stockholm
University, Sweden. She has published articles in academic journals such as
Film International, Montage AV and Frauen und Film and regularly writes for
the Swedish movie magazine FLM. She also has a background as a cultural
journalist, TV-reporter and filmmaker. She is the director of the drag king
documentary Dragkingdom of Sweden (2002), the educational film Var fick du
luft ifrån? En utbildningsfilm om härskartekniker (2005) and the lesbian
short Phone Fuck (2009), made for the Swedish feminist porn film collection
Dirty Diaries (Mia Engberg, 2009).
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Anne G. Sabo

Anne G. Sabo is a former academic turned public educator, author, speaker, freelance writer, and mama- and sex blogger. Her new book After Pornified: How Women Are Transforming Pornography & Why It Really Matters has been called “a goldmine for all sex-positive women and men,” and a “candid, well-informed personal story of how a good girl became involved in porn.” As a college professor, she taught courses in literature, film and women’s studies. She has researched feminist pornography for more than a decade and has become an acknowledged expert in the field. She has written numerous articles and essays on the subject, and is a frequently consulted speaker on the topic. She grew up in Norway, earned her Ph.D. from University of Washington, and has been living in Northfield, Minnesota with her spouse and their now preschooler daughter.
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Angela R. Sargenti

Angela R. Sargenti is known as the queen of Short Attention Span Erotica (#ShortAttentionSpanErotica) and is currently hard at work on her next book, Book Four in the series Baseball Brides, entitled Allison and the Outfielder. Her work also appears in such anthologies as Best Bondage Erotica 2012, Anything For You: Erotica for Kinky Couples, Slave for Love, Sex Toy Stories 2, XOXO: Sweet and Sexy Romance, and The Big Book of Submission. Her recent story, "Caught Looking," appears in the award-winning anthology The Big Book of Domination.Her spanking romances include She's No Angel, The Cowboy and the Mail-Order Bride, Ransome My Love, The Vampires' Ball, Meeting Mr. Pink, The Brat and the Brainiac, The Blonde and the Ballplayer, and her latest, Marigold and the Manager, and are all available on Amazon and at Blushing Books.
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Dan Savage

Dan Savage is an author, media pundit, journalist and newspaper editor who pens the internationally syndicated sex advice column Savage Love. He is the author of Skipping Towards Gomorrah, The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family, and The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided To Go Get Pregnant, a memoir about becoming a father. In 2010, Savage and his husband Terry Miller began the It Gets Better Project to help prevent suicide among LGBT youth and they co-edited the book It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living. He is the star of MTV’s new show Savage U, which debuted in April, and follows him as he speaks to college students about sex and relationships on campuses around the country.
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Mimi Schippers

Mimi Schippers received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is Professor of Sociology and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Tulane University. Her research focuses on masculinities, femininities, and the intersection of gender, race, and sexuality in everyday interactions, relationships, and subcultures. Her current research agenda focuses on compulsory monogamy, polyamory, and the queer, feminist, and anti-racist potential of sex and relationships that include more than two people. She is author of Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities and Rockin’ Out of the Box: Gender Maneuvering in Alternative Hard Rock. She is currently writing her third book, The Polyqueer Gaze: Representations of Monogamy, Polyamory, and the Cultural Production of Inequality.
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Julia Serano

Julia Serano is an Oakland, California-based writer, performer, and activist. She is best known for her 2007 book Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity — The Advocate placed it on their list of “Best Non-Fiction Transgender Books,” and readers of Ms. Magazine ranked it #16 on their list of the “100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time.” Her second book, Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive, also garnered rave reviews and was a Publishing Triangle finalist for the 2013 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. Julia’s other writings have appeared in over a dozen anthologies, and in magazines and news outlets such as The Guardian, The Daily Beast, AlterNet.org, The Advocate, Out, Bitch, and Ms. Magazine. Her writings have also been used as teaching materials in gender and queer studies courses across North America.
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Sinclair Sexsmith

Sinclair Sexsmith (MrSexsmith.com) writes the award-winning personal online project Sugarbutch Chronicles: The Sex, Gender, and Relationship Adventures of a Kinky Queer Butch Top at SugarButch.net. They have contributed to more than a dozen anthologies, and is the editor of Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica. They teach workshops on gender and sexuality throughout the US, including at various colleges. View Guest page

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Andre Shakti

Andre Shakti is a Bay Area educator, producer, activist, and professional slut devoted to normalizing alternative desires, de-stigmatizing sex workers and their partners, and not taking herself too seriously. She writes about sex work for Cosmopolitan online and is currently working on an anthology of sex advice anecdotes by sex workers for ThreeLMedia. She recently had an essay published in the anthology "Coming Out Like a Porn Star". www.ComingOutLikeAPornStar.com, @andreshakti, www.AndreShaktiXXX.com
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Kate Shapiro

Kate Shapiro is originally from North Carolina with roots in West Virginia, Georgia and New York City. Kate is a long time member of SONG and thrilled to be back home in GA.​ She has been a SONG members since 2006 and joined the staff in 2012. ​ Since 2008 she has worked with Spark Reproductive Justice Now, The Center for Participatory Change and The Beehive Design Collective doing youth organizing, capacity building, and popular political education with rural, queer, and immigrant communities. She came to SONG after an amazing stint in rural Wisconsin working in the historic recall elections where she had the opportunity to fuse electoral and community organizing strategies. She is a founding and continued member of the Vision and Strategies Council of Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective. Shapz loves ‘making what we need’, swimming holes and all things savory.
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Felice Shays

Where respect, humor, straight talk, and sex collide is where you’ll find Felice Shays. Providing sexual and BDSM education and counseling for a dozen years in the US and Canada to thousands of people, Felice has been featured in print and on T.V. encouraging people to do breathtaking sexual feats. Recently returned to Brooklyn NY, Felice has presented at a plethora of conferences, sex toy stores, universities, and private functions including Good For Her, Black Rose, Pacific Friction, Dark Odyssey, Babeland, LSM, TES, Wicked Womyn, Shebop, KinkFest, Sugar, Tribal Fire, Come As You Are, The Exiles, Desire, Thunder In The Mountains, and Bringing Age Out Of The Closet. Felice is working on her new book on rough sex, Brutal
Affection: The Joys of Rough Sex, an excerpt of which is in Tristan Taromino’s anthology The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge. Due to her work as a certified American Sign Language Interpreter for many years, Felice also teaches Deaf people in ASL about sex, sensual technique and creativity, self-discovery, rough sex, and various aspects of BDSM.
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Dr. Elisabeth “Eli” Sheff

A pioneer in research on polyamory, Dr. Elisabeth “Eli” Sheff is the foremost academic expert on polyamory in the US, and the worldwide expert on poly families with children, having conducted the only longitudinal analysis of poly families with children to date. After teaching Sociology for 15 years at three universities, Dr. Sheff established the Sheff Consulting Group (SCG), a think-tank of academicians and professionals who specialize in legal and educational services for unconventional populations, and those who need to know about them. As the Senior Legal Consultant at SCG, Dr. Sheff specializes in families of sexual minorities, providing expert witness services, home evaluations for unconventional families facing child custody issues or attempting to adopt kids, and continuing education to lawyers, educators, counselors, and therapists. Her book The Polyamorists Next Door: Inside Multiple Partner Relationships and Families is being published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2013.
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Kelly Shibari

From her background in design and construction in mainstream film and television production, to performing in front of the camera as the sexually charged figurehead for chubby Asian girls everywhere, Kelly Shibari is a stereotype-breaking tour-de-force. Holding the distinct honor of being the only plus-sized performer ever molded for a Fleshlight, Kelly is also the face of harness company SpareParts Hardwear®’s plus size line, and made sexy pop culture media site Fleshbot’s Top Ten Crush Object List for 2013. Her self-produced, self-marketed DVD, Kelly Shibari is Overloaded, was nominated for both XBIZ and AVN, not just for the DVD itself but also for its marketing campaign. Kelly was named 2013 BBW Performer of the Year at EXXXOTICA’s fan-based awards, “The Fannys,” and also named Best BBW Performer at the 2013 NightMoves Awards. Most recently, Kelly made history as the first-ever plus size model ever to grace the cover of Penthouse Magazine’s Penthouse Forum.
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Celine Parreñas Shimizu

Celine Parreñas Shimizu teachs film and performance theory and production as Professor of Asian American, Comparative Literature, Feminist Studies and Film and Media Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is part of a decades long history of race and media production in the U.C. system. She is the author of the award-winning book The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene (Duke University Press, 2007) and Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies (Stanford University Press, 2012). Her first feature documentary Birthright: Mothering across Difference (2009) won Best Feature Documentary at the Big Mini DV Festival in 2009. Her films The Fact of Asian Women (2004), Super Flip (1997), and Mahal Means Love and Expensive are distributed by Progressive Films and Her Uprooting Plants Her (1995) is distributed by Third World Newsreel. Her numerous articles are included in the journals Concentric, The Journal of Asian American Studies, Signs, The Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, Wide Angle and Theatre Journal.
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Jim Short

Jim Short is a stand-up comedian originally from Australia.
Jim tours regularly throughout the United States and his act comprises a mix of personal observations on pop and social culture, world media and history, and television and music references. He performed at the
2004 Montreal International Just For Laughs Comedy Festival, where he was deemed one of the “Talk of the Fest” performers. He won the 2004 San Francisco International Stand Up Competition. Jim has made numerous television appearances, including Shorties Watchin’ Shorties, Late Show with David Letterman, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, John Wants Answers, and Comedy Central’s Premium Blend. He co-hosts the podcast Monsters of Talk with Margaret Cho.
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Cory Silverberg

Cory Silverberg is a sexuality educator, author, public speaker, and was a founding member of the Come As You Are Co-operative. He received his Masters of Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. He served as the chair of sexuality educator certification for the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), and teaches on topics including sex and disability, sex and technology, and pleasure, inclusion, and access across North America. He is currently writing a series of three books for children about gender and sexuality for Seven Stories Press. The first, What Makes a Baby, was released in May 2013. The second, Sex Is a Funny Word, was released in August, 2015. Cory can be found online at sexuality.about.com, where he writes and blogs about sexual politics, education, culture, and health.
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Siouxsie Q

Siouxsie Q is the creator and host of the acclaimed podcast, The WhoreCast, which showcases the stories art and voices of American sex workers. As an active sex worker herself Siouxsie Q is committed to fighting for sex worker rights and ending exploitation within the industry. Her column, “The Whore Next Door” runs every week in the San Francisco Weekly, and she also writes for Eros Media, and Ratter.com. When not feverishly writing or rushing to her next interview for CNN, Wired Magazine, or USA Today, Siouxsie Q teaches classes on non-monogamy with her co-host and fiancée Jesse James, hosts a Game of Thrones podcast called, “Winter is Coming On Your Face,” and stars in feminist, fetish and mainstream porn, which garnered her an 2015 AVN nomination for Best All Girl Group Sex Scene. Fighting for Truth, Justice, and the American Whore is what Siouxsie was born to do, but she’ll happily talk baseball, BDSM, and Broadway musicals with you if prompted. View Guest page

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Annie M. Sprinkle

Annie M. Sprinkle is an internationally known multi-media artist whose work is often studied in History of Performance Art classes, gender studies and film studies at major Universities/Colleges. Sprinkle has continuously toured one-woman theater performances about her life since 1989, such as Post Porn Modernist and Hestory of Porn. One of the pivotal players in the 80’s “sex positive feminist movement,” Ms.
Sprinkle’s art work has long championed sex education and equal rights. The film she produced and directed, The Sluts and Goddesses Video Workshop has played in well over 100 film festivals, at museums and galleries, including at the Guggenheim in NYC. She became the first sex film star to successfully bridge into the world of art, and to earn a Ph.D., which she was awarded from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, in 2002. She is a popular visiting artist at many Universities. Annie Sprinkle’s autobiographical book, Post Porn Modernist broke new ground in art books that include sexually oriented imagery. Her book, Hard Core From the Heart; The Pleasures, Profits and Politics of Sex in Performance was published by Continuum Press for the academic market and won the Firecracker Alternative Book Award (2002).
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Steven St. Croix

Steven St. Croix has performed in over 1200 full length feature movies with over 1600 woman on camera. He received 55 nominations for AVN, XRCO and XBIZ Awards (and 19 wins), won 2 Nightmoves Awards, and is a member of both the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame. He's the triple crown winner for Best Actor 2013 for XBIZ, AVN and XRCO for his role in “Torn”. St. Croix is the first male star to be signed to an exclusive contract with a video company, the first male contract star for Vivid Video, and had his penis insured for $1 million dollars through Lloyd’s of London. In addition to starring in films for Vivid, Adam & Eve, Penthouse, Wicked, Cinemax, and Hustler, he's also written and directed 20 adult films. He's widely known for comedic and dramatic roles, including parts in Baywatch, Babylon 5, Diagnosis Murder, Six Feet Under, The Client List and Castle. His latest book is "Porn Star: Everything You Want to Know and Are Embarrassed to Ask."
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Jacky St. James

Jacky St. James is an award winning writer and director in the adult entertainment industry. She is known for creating a wide range of films, from romantic comedies to edgier all-sex releases, with her most acclaimed titles being: Torn, The Friend Zone, Power and Control, The Submission of Emma Marx, and The Temptation of Eve.
During this past 2013 award season, Torn (which St. James wrote and then subsequently co-directed with Eddie Powell) took home multiple awards including: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Couples’ Release, and Best Screenplay. Throughout her career in adult, St. James has been an advocate of couple's-oriented pornography and has been a guest speaker UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, AEE, Exxxotica, XBIZ 360. She has been featured in several popular mainstream publications including Jezebel, Slate, and the Examiner. St. James shares pictures, clips, and stories about her successes and debacles as a woman working within the adult industry on her website, missjackystjames.com.
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Lanae St. John

Lanae St. John, DHS, ACS, is board certified sexologist, sexuality coach & educator, and writer. She received her Doctorate in Human Sexuality from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, where she focused on Child and Adolescent Sexuality. She develops curriculum, teaches classes, and works with clients to normalize conversations about sexuality between parents and children. Her writing and sex expertise have been featured in various publications, websites, radio shows, and on YouTube. Lanae is the proud mother of two daughters, aged 12 and 13, with whom she has plenty of practice honing her communication skills and developing techniques to talk about sex that work. She actively embodies her ideas about honesty with sensitivity, empowerment, freedom of expression, and body-positivity with her kids. She blogs about sex, parenting, relationships, and gender at www.themamasutra.net.
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Magdalene St. Michaels

Magdalene St. Michaels
The British-born Magdalene St. Michaels was discovered by Girlfriends Films in 2007 at the AEE convention in Las Vegas. She was simply walking around the booths for fun when a Girlfriends exec flagged her down and asked her to consider a career in adult movies. A classically trained theater actress, singer and dancer, Magdalene was looking for a creative outlet and decided to give it a try. She has quickly built a name as one of the most authentic performers in girl/girl erotica, and at over 50, a role model for "older women" in the industry. She has performed in select boy/girl scenes, but her true passion remains all-girl erotica.
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Aiden Starr

Aiden Starr was born to be a Mistress. While working in NYC as a fetish model and performer, she also managed The Den of Antiquity, a prominent fetish dungeon and later opened another branch of The Den when she moved to Los Angeles. In 2006, Aiden and her long time gal pal Julie Simone worked together to produce “Vicious Vixens” for Julie Simone Productions. Their goal was to accurately portray the fetish lifestyle with respect and understanding so that the hardcore fans of fetish content were pleased. The series has received rave reviews and has been nominated for Best BDSM film at the AVN Awards. Starr has been nominated for a variety of awards, including the 2013 AVN Award - Unsung Starlet of the Year, and she won the 2009 AVN Award for Best All-Girl 3-Way Sex Scene for the movie “Cheerleaders.”
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Bobbi Starr

Bobbi Starr is a very hardcore kind of performer and director. Her scenes have been shot for gonzo companies like Evil Angel, Jules Jordan Video and Red Light District and she won AVN Awards for Most Outrageous Sex Scene and Best Double Penetration Sex Scene as well as an XRCO Award for Most Orgasmic Oralist and two consecutive wins for Superslut. You may have seen her on Kink.com’s websites in many of their scenes, and she’s also in demand in Europe, having received an AVN nomination for Best Sex Scene in a Foreign-Shot Production for “Into the Dark” from Daring Media Group and a coveted Hot d’Or nomination for Female American Performer of the Year. She’s also a former nationally ranked swimmer and a trained professional concert oboist.
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David Steinberg

David Steinberg is an author, editor, photographer, and publisher of artistic, imaginative sexual and erotic material. His books include This Thing We Call Sex: A Radically Sensible Look at Sex in America; Divas of San Francisco: Portraits of Transsexual Women; Photo Sex: Fine Art Sexual Photography Comes of Age; Erotic by Nature: A Celebration of Life, of Love, and of Our Wonderful Bodies; and The Erotic Impulse: Honoring the Sensual Self. For 15 years he wrote a syndicated monthly column on sex and gender issues, Comes Naturally. Over the last 15 years he has photographed the intimate sexuality of over 160 couples of all ages, body types, ethnicities, and sexual preferences, attempting to capture on film the honest emotions of people engaged in sex. He was named Erotic Photographer of the Year in 2010 by the Leydig Trust (London), and Master of Erotic Art by the Seattle Erotic Art Festival in 2012. He is working on two books of sexual photographs, Loving Couples, and SexAbility.
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Elizabeth M. Stephens

Elizabeth M. Stephens is interdisciplinary artist, activist and educator who has explored themes of sexuality, gender, queerness, and feminism through art for over 20 years. Her current passion is
SexEcology: the art of exploring the Earth as a lover. This work is designed to create the desire in others to love, cherish and honor the earth as they would their own lover, instead of expecting the earth to take care of them as one might expect from one’s mother. SexEcology combines Stephens’ interest in sexuality and ecology in order to help stop environmental degradation and bring about environmental healing and pleasure. Some of her other works include the bronze sculptural installation, The Academic/Porn Star Panty Collection; the road trip performance piece Wish You Were Here; the video installation, Kiss, as well as her ongoing collaboration with Annie Sprinkle in the Love Art Laboratory. She has exhibited and performed in museums, galleries and festivals around the world.
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Julie Stewart

Julie Stewart has been part of Sportsheets for the past nineteen years overseeing finance, sales, marketing, human resources, strategic planning and working with product development. In 2012 she was promoted to President of the company. She grew up in Michigan and graduated from Warren Wilson College in 1993. In 1999, she received an Executive MBA from Pepperdine University. She enjoys the challenges of running a business and especially likes working with customers, the Sportsheets staff, and seeing our new releases excel in the market place. She loves that Sportsheets is about keeping couples connected and is rewarded by the joy Sportsheets brings to people. On her time off she loves being with her family learning from her six year old daughter Samantha. She likes music, traveling, shopping, reading and being with family.
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Marla Stewart

Marla Renee Stewart, MA is a co-founder of the Sex Down South Conference. She is a sexologist, a professional sex, intimacy and relationship coach and sexuality educator. Gaining her reputation for being “The Sex Architect,” she created Velvet Lips, a sexuality education company, to empower people of all ages to embrace, educate and enjoy their sexuality and their sexual lives. She has studied human sexuality for more than 14 years at San Francisco State University and Georgia State University, respectively, and has expert knowledge in a wide variety of subjects. She has published academic articles and continues to do sexuality research. She has conducted workshops at conferences, not-for-profit and private organizations, as well as universities in the Atlanta area. She has been featured on many radio shows, documentaries, books, magazines and has been invited to speak at Universities around the country.
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Tom Stewart

Tom Stewart, Founder and CEO of Sportsheets International, Inc., created the Sportsheet, the “Velcro” Bondage Bedsheet, while serving as a helicopter pilot in the Marines in the late 1980’s. Tom banked on this unique idea for a never-before-made product, unknowingly, on the cusp of the adult novelty industry explosion.
Inspired by an episode of the David Letterman Show, he developed a product that would allow you to restrain your partner with safe and easy-to-use Velcro. A key selling point on the Sportsheet is that “you’re only as tied us as you want to be,” which makes the product very alluring to women. Over the last two decades Tom continued to build his company on the fantasy bondage concept, developing more than
500 different products for curious couples.
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Matthew Stillman

Matthew Stillman, born & bred New Yorker, ran program development at Food Network for many years. He conceived of & produced the film "The End of Poverty?" that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival & went to 40 film festivals. He spoke at the UN four times about the film. A lifetime with literature, inner spiritual work from different traditions, creativity & play, he has written "Genesis Deflowered" in a genre that he may have just made up - Biblical Erotica written in Elizabethan English View Guest page

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Rick Storer

Rick Storer is the Executive Director of the Leather Archives & Museum. He is a certified public accountant and holds a Masters of Library Science degree from Dominican University (River Forest, IL). He has presented papers for library, art and museum conferences and sexuality conferences and enjoys working in the arena where these two subjects overlap. His research interests lie in copyright and privacy issues as related to sexuality and GLBT archives. During his tenure in the corporate world, he worked on a team to successfully bring domestic partner benefits to a large insurance company. Rick joined the Leather Archives staff as Executive Director in 2002, after serving as a volunteer for the museum for several years. He has been presented with awards including Pantheon of Leather Man of the Year, Pantheon of Leather President's Award, SouthWest Leather Conference Leatherman's Heart Award and the Peter Thomas award from Rodeo Riders Chicago.
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Donna George Storey

Donna George Storey’s adults-only tales have appeared in nearly two hundred publications including Penthouse, Mammoth Book of Erotica Presents the Best of Donna George Storey, and Best American Erotica. She is the author of Amorous Woman, an erotic novel based on her own experiences living in Japan. She is currently researching a historical novel set in 1912 and is learning a lot about sex in America one hundred years ago. She blogs monthly on writing, erotica and sexuality at the Erotica Readers and Writers Association. Learn more at DonnaGeorgeStorey.com.
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Jackie Strano

Jackie Strano is the Executive Vice President of Good Vibrations the legendary feminist sex positive adult retailer founded in 1977. Strano is an award winning and best-selling adult filmmaker of explicit and non-explicit sex-ed movies, a sex educator for over 20 years, author, performer, producer, and has lectured at conferences, universities, and appeared on HBO, various documentaries, and featured in Cosmo, Playboy, Self Magazine, Salon, The Village Voice, and various independent newspapers throughout the country.
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Neil Strauss

Neil Strauss is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Game, Rules of the Game, Emergency, and Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead. He is also the co-author of three other New York Times bestsellers - Jenna Jameson’s How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, Mötley Crüe’s The Dirt and Marilyn Manson’s The Long Hard Road out of Hell. A writer for Rolling Stone, Strauss lives in Los Angeles and can be found at www.neilstrauss.com.
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Whitney Strub

Whitney Strub is an associate professor of history and director of the Women’s & Gender Studies Program at Rutgers University-Newark. He is the author of Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right and Obscenity Rules: Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression. He has also written for Salon, Radical History Review, OutHistory.org, Journal of Women’s History, and Journal of the History of Sexuality, among other venues. He lives in Philadelphia
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Kitty Stryker

Kitty Stryker is a writer, activist, and authority on developing a consent culture in alternative communities. Now working on "Ask: Building Consent Culture", an anthology through Thorntree Press coming out in 2017, Kitty tours internationally speaking at universities and conferences about feminism, sex work, body positivity, queer politics, and more. An active member of genderqueer feminist art group The Degenderettes, she spends much of her time serving as a street medic in support of antifascist, anti-racist resistance.
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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is a flaming queen dedicated to keeping the fire burning. She’s the author of a memoir and two novels, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her most recent title, The End of San Francisco, won a 2014 Lambda Literary Award, and her most recent anthology, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform, was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. She recently finished a mesmerizing third novel, Sketchtasy, and hopefully the right publisher will snatch it up soon.
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Cecilia Tan

Susie Bright says Cecilia Tan is "simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature." Her BDSM romance novel Slow Surrender (Hachette/Forever, 2013) won the RT Reviewers Choice Award in Erotic Romance. Her books often explores sex, sensuality, and sexuality, among them: Black Feathers (HarperCollins), White Flames (Running Press), and Edge Plays (Circlet Press), The Prince's Boy (Circlet Press), The Hot Streak (Riverdale Avenue Books), and her latest novel, SLOW SATISFACTION, which brings to a close her current BDSM trilogy for Hachette.Her short stories have appeared in Ms. Magazine, Nerve, Best American Erotica, Asimov's Science Fiction, and tons of other places. Tan was inducted into the Saints & Sinners Hall of Fame for GLBT writers in 2010, was a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Leather Association in 2004.
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The Smitten Kitten

The Smitten Kitten is a hub of community activity. We consider ourselves sex-positive culture makers and community members. When we opened in 2003, there were only a handful of places like this in the country—in the world even. We were tired of scouring the internet for helpful and relevant information about sex, and we were totally exhausted by shopping online for toys and supplies that too often ended up being disappointing. So, for the better of our own sex lives, we opened our own sex toy store. What you’ll find at Smitten Kitten today is the place we wish we had when we were first adult retail consumers ourselves. Our store is welcoming. The folks who work here are friendly and honestly helpful. The products that we sell are well-researched, are good quality, and represent the best value in their class. Read some of our reviews online and you’ll see that it’s not only us who think we’re doing a pretty good job. What you will find are wholesome, sexy Midwestern folks and visitors of all ages, races, abilities, sexual orientations, and genders shopping with common purpose: a happier, healthier, sexier and more inspiring love life.
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Clarisse Thorn

Clarisse Thorn is a feminist, sex-positive educator who has delivered sexuality workshops and lectures to a variety of audiences, including museums and universities across the USA. In 2009, she created and curated the ongoing Sex+++ sex-positive documentary film series at Chicago's historic feminist site, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. In 2010, she returned to the USA after working on HIV mitigation in southern Africa. She has also volunteered as an archivist, curator and fundraiser for that venerable S&M institution, the Leather Archives & Museum. Clarisse's writing has appeared across the Internet in places like The Guardian, AlterNet, Feministe, Jezebel, The Good Men Project, Role/Reboot, and Time Out Chicago.
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Sarah Tomchesson

Since 1971, The Pleasure Chest has helped pioneer a sex positive culture, with an emphasis on education, enjoyment and inclusivity. For 45 years, Pleasure Chest has been a resource for the best products and the most accurate information to make your life sexier. With five stores in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles as well as online, Pleasure Chest offers every customer a specialized experience in a judgment-free environment, a huge variety of toys and a regular series of free workshops to promote healthy, pleasurable and fulfilling sex for everyone. Sarah Tomchesson has been with the Pleasure Chest for over 7 years and has seen the company through a number of exciting endeavors including launching a totally free, weekly education series, which heavily features Pleasure Chest-trained educators, developing and producing SexIsBack.com a sexual storytelling campaign, and opening the first new locations in 30 years.
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Courtney Trouble

Courtney Trouble is a film-maker, published and celebrated photographer, queer rights activist, DIY genius, and an award-winning feminist pornographer. Courtney is the founder of NoFauxxx.Com and QueerPorn.TV, as well of the director of 12 full-length films. Queer Porn Icon Courtney Trouble has been producing, directing, and performing in Queer Porn since 2002, and is responsible for coining the term “Queer Porn” as a genre in the mainstream industry. Nominated for 3 AVN Awards, and winner of 4 Feminist Porn Awards, Courtney Trouble’s ﬁlms speak to an extremely ﬂuid, authentic, and hardcore version of graphic sexual imagery.
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Alison Tyler

Alison Tyler:
Called a “Trollop with a Laptop” by East Bay Express, a “Literary Siren” by Good Vibrations, and “over caffeinated” by her favorite local barista, Alison Tyler has made being naughty a full-time job.
Her sultry short stories have appeared in more than 100 anthologies including Sex for America, Liaisons, and Bedding Down. In all things important, she remains faithful to her partner of 17 years, but she still can’t choose just one perfume. Find her 24/7 at alisontyler.blogspot.com.
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Jessica Valenti

Jessica Valenti is the author of three books: Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters, He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut…and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know, and The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women which has been made into a documentary by the Media Education Foundation. She is the editor of Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, which was named one of Publishers Weekly‘s Top 100 Books of 2009. Jessica is also the founder of Feministing.com. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Nation, The Guardian (UK), The American Prospect, Ms., Salon, and Bitch magazine. She has appeared on The Colbert Report and the Today show, among others, and was profiled in The New York Times Magazine under the headline “Fourth Wave Feminism.” She received her Masters degree in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University. View Guest page

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Lisa Vandever

As co-founder and director of CineKink, an organization that recognizes and encourages the positive depiction of sexuality in film and television, Lisa Vandever curates and oversees an annual film festival and touring series designed to promote and showcase such works. Billing itself as "the kinky film festival," with offerings drawn from both the independent cinema world and the adult, works presented at CineKink, currently in its eleventh season, range from documentary to drama, comedy to experimental, slightly spicy to quite explicit--and everything in between.
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Malay Vannouvong

Malay Vannouvong has been a part of the Aneros team for almost 5 years. Fresh out of the Univ. of Houston in 2008, Aneros gave her her first real job and she was appointed Dir. of Client Relations at the end of 2012. What started off as a cool option, an alternative to a cubicle within a restrictive corporate setting, has quickly transformed into a passion. ANEROS is the home of products scientifically designed for sexual wellness and pleasure. Backed by years of testimonials from happy customers, and great reviews on the radio, books, magazines, and the web, ANEROS has established itself as the ultimate source for sexual fulfillment.
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Cathy Vartuli

Cathy Vartuli is a sex-positive Emotional Freedom and Relationship Coach who helps people transform their traumas into their greatest strengths using love, laughter and inner guidance. Cathy is a PhD scientist and engineer with 18 patents and author of over 50 scientific publications and 70 conference presentations. She is a certified AAMET Advanced Emotional Freedom Techniques Practitioner, and offers a wide range of programs and services – from audio products and programs, to group and individual coaching. She's been coaching for 6 years and has worked with over a thousand clients. She has co-lead programs and products with Reid Mihalko, and created a PSA on body image with Buck Angel. Cathy has been featured on EFT Hub World Video Summit, the EFT-Universe, Living Energy Secrets, and Create Your Dream Life Summit.
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Franklin Veaux

Franklin Veaux is the co-author of the groundbreaking new book More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory, and the author of the top-ranked polyamory site on the Web, morethantwo.com. He also maintains the sites xeromag.com and symtoys.com, which include extensive writings about BDSM, publishes erotic fiction under the pen name William Vitelli, and is the co-founder of the publishing company Thorntree Press and the sex toy R&D company Tacit Pleasures.

Franklin started practicing non-monogamy from the moment he started becoming aware that boys and girls are different. He started writing about it in 1998. Over the decades, he's made just about every mistake it’s possible to make in polyamorous relationships. Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment. Today, he has five partners, lives in Portland, Oregon, and spends a great deal of time writing about everything from relationship ethics to transhumanism to computer security.
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Rachel Venning

Rachel Venning & Claire Cavanah are co-founders of Babeland, the famous sex toy shop celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Babeland is all about promoting sexual vitality, not only with customers in the store, but out in the community, whether that means visiting senior centers or student groups or anywhere else.
They’ve got a message of self-love, body-positivity and pleasure that they want to share. They are also the co-authors of the books Sex Toys
101 and Moregasm: Babeland’s Guide to Mindblowing Sex. They answer questions about sex, sex toys and the sex toy industry for media outlets as diverse as Brooklyn Paper and the Columbia University C-Spot to the New York Times and CNN. They also blog, tweet and answer sex questions at Babeland.com.
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Allison Vivas

After completing her degree at the University of Arizona in 2001, Allison Vivas joined a startup adult website affiliate program called TopBucks at the age of 21. Allison quickly rose to the position of Marketing Director, where she oversaw a wide range of the company's activities in marketing, sales, event coordination, and project planning, across several product lines for both the adult entertainment and 'mainstream' markets. In 2004, the company launched Pink Visual to bring together its Internet, broadcast and DVD distribution efforts under a single brand. Allison was named President of the company in 2006 and since then the company has played a major role with mobile distribution and anti-piracy efforts, most recently launching the Anti-Piracy Service: DMCA Force. She penned "Making Peace with Porn" in 2013 which combined research with her own personal growth around understanding porn as a woman.
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Carrie Wade

Carrie Wade is a writer and storyteller specializing in disability and identity. Her work has appeared on Autostraddle, Upworthy, and the RISK! podcast, among other places. She lives in Los Angeles, where she does a lot of crossword puzzles and longs for a squish-faced dog.
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Anita Wagner Illig

Anita Wagner Illig is a thought leader, media consultant , spokesperson and educator on polyamory, relationship choice and families of the heart. Via her website, practicalpolyamory.com, she provides resources on a vast range of subjects of interest and concern to the polyamory community, as well as to members of the media. Anita serves on the Advisory Council of The Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance, is an active member of the Polyamory Leadership Network.
She has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Loving More® and is co-founder and former member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for 21st Century Relationships. She has taught more than 100 classes on polyamory relationship skills at conferences across the U.S. Anita has appeared on television in interviews on polyamory in Washington, DC and Baltimore and has been quoted in news articles in The New York Times, Newsweek, the Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, BBC and Salon.com, amongst many others.
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Sean Saifa Wall

Sean Saifa M. Wall is an intersex activist, somatic practitioner student, and researcher living in Atlanta, GA. Originally from the Bronx, NY Saifa grew up witnessing the devastation of the 1980’s crack epidemic firsthand, losing his father to the prison industrial complex, and eventually to AIDS. Only 14 years old, and motivated by grief, he volunteered with the Child Life Program at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis in New York City. This early start would be the foundation of his career in HIV Prevention. His commitment to social justice deepened while studying at Williams College where he came out as queer. Saifa was politically shaped by the senseless murders of Matthew Shepard and Amadou Diallo and responded by organizing protests that sparked campus conversations about race, gender identity, and class inequity. After graduation he joined an interfaith peace organization called Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) as a Racial and Economic Justice Intern.
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Jane Ward

Jane Ward is associate professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at UCR. She has published on a broad range of topics including: feminist pornography; queer parenting; gay pride festivals; gay marriage campaigns; transgender relationships; the social construction of heterosexuality; the failure of diversity programs; and the evolution of HIV/AIDS organizations. Her first book, Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations was named by The Progressive magazine as a best book of 2008. Her second book, just released from NYU Press, is titled Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men. Professor Ward is founder of the feminist blog FeministPigs.com. View Guest page

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Maggie West

Maggie West is a Los Angeles based photographer specializing in experimental lighting and color techniques. Her surreal, colorful photographs have been featured in acclaimed publications and sources worldwide. West has been involved in benefits for organizations such as Planned Parenthood and the ACLU. Her first book, KISS, featured 25 LA based couples kissing under a spectrum of colored light. West's second book, 23, examines the spectrum of gender and sexuality and will be released April 26th.
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Lawrence Westerman

Lawrence Westerman is an author of femdom erotica. His first short story; "Her Majesty's Plaything," appeared in the collection Under Her Thumb: Erotic Stories of Female Domination, edited by D.L. King, published by Cleis Press in 2013. Westerman’s second short story, "Dreams Made Flesh," will appear in On Fire edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel, to be published by Cleis Press July 18, 2017. Westerman’s website Femdom Dreams Made Flesh (http://femdomdreamsmadeflesh.tumblr.com), showcases erotic fiction ranging from tender domestic scenes to futuristic femdom fantasy. Lawrence Westerman grew up in New York City on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He has since relocated to Philadelphia where he resides with his wife, who he affectionately calls Her Majesty.
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Dr. Winston Wilde

Dr. Winston Wilde received his Masters in Clinical Psychology (MA) fromAntioch University, Los Angeles, 1997, and Doctor of Human Sexuality (DHS) from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco in 1999. As a psychotherapist, he is licensed by the State of California (#MFC39060) at the Board of Behavioral Sciences in Sacramento and is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.

After years of endless documentation, he was finally certified by the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists as a Sex Educator (2002), Sex Therapist (2004) and Sex Therapy Supervisor (2009). He is serving as Advisory Committee Chair for the Monette-Horwitz Trust and is the past president (2010) of the Western Region of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. Born in Hollywood, raised in Santa Monica, Wilde has travelled many places in the world, but always come back to Our Village of The Angels.

His life has been circuitous, taking him into paths untrodden, into radical sexualities and diverse spiritual practices. Other adventures include sexology conferences in Cuba and India, radical faerie gatherings and Old Guard traditions, trekking the Himalayas, observing days at a time of devotional silence, Buddhist monastery stays, and helping mid-wife people as they die.
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Willy Wilkinson

Willy Wilkinson, MPH is an award-winning transgender writer and public health consultant who has been advocating for marginalized populations since the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. A dynamic and engaging speaker who is recognized widely for his expertise in transgender issues, Willy has trained and provided consultation services for hundreds of community health organizations, businesses, and educational institutions on how to provide equal access for LGBT populations. He has extensive experience with communities of color, substance users, sex workers, youth, and people with disabilities. Willy has been published in numerous anthologies, periodicals, and journals, and is the author of Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency. He earned a Masters in Public Health in Community Health Education from UC Berkeley, and a BA in Women’s Studies from UC Santa Cruz.
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Morgan Mann Willis

Morgan Mann Willis is one of the oldest running members of the bklyn boihood collective. East-coast born and raised, Morgan's gayness (and queerness) has been at the center of her creative writing, strategic thinking and social navigation. As the writer-in-residence, Morgan is responsible for a huge amount of the social media, language, framing of bklyn boihood as well as the collective's annual retreats. She is a writer, educator, facilitator and consultant who currently lives in Detroit, Michigan. As the lead editor of OTXY, Morgan's role of late has been storytelling and creating spaces for stories to be told. She is a traveler, a hustler, a thinker and a doer. In addition to her work with bklyn boihood, she has been the Director of the Allied Media Conference in Detroit for the last 5 years.
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Dedeker Winston

Dedeker Winston was raised to be a wholesome Christian conservative, but later opted to be a a sex-positive polyamory activist, relationship coach, and nude model. She currently provides one-on-one coaching services for people transitioning into non-monogamy and is one of the hosts of the Multiamory podcast. She has been sought out as an expert for Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Newsweek, Vice, Bustle, and also appeared on the FOX television show Utopia. Her book, The Smart Girl’s Guide to Polyamory: Everything You Need to Know About Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Alternative Love (Skyhorse Publishing), debuted earlier this year. When she isn't coaching, writing, modeling, or spending time with her multiple partners, she enjoys backpacking around the globe, playing video games, and obsessively applying chapstick.
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Kristina Wright

Kristina Wright:
Described by The Romance Reader as “a budding force to be reckoned with,” Kristina Wright is a full-time writer and the editor of the bestselling Fairy Tale Lust, as well as other Cleis Press anthologies including Dream Lover; Steamlust; Lustfully Ever After; Duty and Desire and the Best Erotic Romance series. Kristina’s erotica and erotic romance fiction has appeared in over one hundred anthologies and her articles, interviews and book reviews have appeared in numerous publications, both print and online. She received the Golden Heart Award for Romantic Suspense from Romance Writers of America for her first novel Dangerous Curves and she’s a member of RWA as well as the special interest chapters Passionate Ink and Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal. She holds degrees in English and humanities and has taught composition and world mythology at the college level.
Originally from South Florida, Kristina lives in Virginia with her husband Jay and their two little boys.
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Madison Young

MADISON YOUNG is an artist, author, certified sex educator, feminist pornographer, and mother. Young grew up in the suburban landscape of Southern Ohio before moving to San Francisco, California, in 2000. Young frequently teaches workshops and gives lectures on the topics of sexuality, feminist porn studies, motherhood and sexuality, and the politics of BDSM. Young has been featured for her expertise in sex-positive culture in numerous documentaries and in television and media outlets such as Bravo, the Huffington Post, the New York Times, and HBO. Her writings have been published in books such as The Ultimate Guide to Kink, Best Sex Writing 2013, Subversive Motherhood, and Coming Out Like a Porn Star. Her memoir, Daddy, was published in February 2014 through Rare Bird/Barnacle Books, followed by the publication of The Ultimate Guide to Sex Through Pregnancy and Motherhood (Cleis Press) and The DIY Porn Handbook: Documenting Our Own Sexual Revolution(Greenery Press).
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Andrea Zanin

Andrea Zanin, a.k.a. Sex Geek, has been teaching about queer sexuality, non-monogamy and BDSM/leather internationally for over a decade, and she endeavours to bring an awareness of privilege and oppression to all her work. Andrea is pursuing a PhD in women’s studies at York University with a focus on Canadian leatherdyke history. She has written about sex, relationshisp and kink for numerous magazines and newspapers, blogs at http://sexgeek.wordpress.com. Her erotic short stories and essays on sex and SM have been published in a number of anthologies. Andrea co-organizes the annual Canadian leatherdyke weekend An Unholy Harvest, runs a pervy book club called The Leather Bindings Society and judges the occasional leather contest. She lives in Toronto and enjoys cultivating M/s relationships with exceptionally high-quality individuals, eating fine dark chocolate and wearing really nice shoes.
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